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What you need to understand about sending email

in polite german: Bite niche einfach Files verschicken.

How to make really small JPGs ... or ... how to make pictures for web-pages ... or ... how to make small JPGs

How to work the internet via email alone (if you have only email, and can't surf the WWW)

Send anonymous email or post anonymously to newsgroups ... blow the whistle!

How to make your own Web-pages click here ... here ... here ... and norbert's page here

How to login to a ftp-server which requires a login and Password with a browser:
example: ftp://username:passwd@ftp.bla.com/pub/subdir

How to keep your data on your computer secret (If your computer/laptop is stolen, your data at least is safe!)

For surfing... DO USE A personal FireWall . Otherwise you could face surprises.

If you do not have an HTML-EDITOR, then download THIS template, and load it in WinWord and cut-copy-paste the elements and alter the texts to your needs, and then SAVE it AS HTML in WinWord. This may produce a reasonable html-file to put online.

and encrypt your email, like nobody's business

The internet depends on your good will. The people who receive your email may be pissed off, if you send them:

LARGE emails. Especially DO NOT SEND FILES without asking first. Make sure that the file is compressed, otherwise ZIP it before sending. You do not need to zip JPG pictures. They are compressed already.

advertisment or other useless stuff

material they haven't asked for

hate-mail. Nobody needs that.

Apart from the inconvenience it is considered an offense against netiquette if you do any of the above. If you are so impolite to someone, they can ask your operator to cancel your email-account. And you wouldn't be the first one. True!

Imagine this situation, which happened to me:
I was on the road and accessing my email with a toll-call. This idiot sent me a 700kByte file without asking first, and I had to download it at a shitty computer very slowly (at 2400baud/220cps) before I was able to read my important email after his. The call cost was 1$80 per minute and it almost lastest an hour. So this useless email did cost me about $100.

Es ist gegen die NETIQUETTE (die Etiquette des Internets) einer Person ungefragt Dateien (Bilder, Toene, Programme) zu schicken. Heute in den 90ern ist es aber keine grosse Verfehlung, ein kleines Bild (max ca20kB) zu schicken. Der Grund ist der, dass man nie wissen kann, wann, wo und wie der andere seine Email liest. Ein Beispiel soll das verdeutlichen: Falls man zB seine Email ueber einen Taschencomputer, mit einer sehr begrenzten Software ueber eine Mobilfunkleitung abruft, und man erwartet eine wichtige Nachricht (email), dann kann der Empfang einer 1mB grossen Datei folgende Kosten verursachen, nur damit man die naechste Email in der Schlange lesen kann... eben die wichtige Nachricht auf die man gewartet hat. 1mb ergibt 1.5mB kodierte Daten, bei 4800baud (400byte pro sekunde) dauert das ueber eine Stunde, bei 1,80 DM pro Minute = 108 DM mindestens. Natuerlich machen das nicht viele Leute... aber es gibt auch noch andere Moeglichkeiten, wie eine grosse "binaere" Datei einem grosse Schwierigkeiten verursachen kann. Zum Beispiel, wenn man ein Email-Postfach mit begrenzter Groesse hat, wie zB bei T-Online. Dann werden alle folgend emails gebounct, also zurueckgeschickt, und die wichtige Email kam auch nicht an, weil die grosse Datei den Briefkasten verstopft hat. Aber es gibt noch viele andere Moeglichkeiten, wie deine Email zum grossen Aergernis werden kann. Also gebe bitte deinem Email-partner imm dei Moeglichkeit zu sagen: "Bitte schick es erst morgen ... an meine andere email Addresse" indem du ihn vorher fragst, ob es OK ist, eine so-und-so grosse Datei zu schicken. Es ist uebrigens auch moeglich, dass dein Email-partner so erbost darueber ist, das er deinem Provider eine Email schickt mit der Bitte dich zu verwarnen. Bei groben Verletzungen, kann dir dann sofort, oder nach der zweiten Verwarnung der Stecker gezogen werden. Bei Anfaengern ist das schon oft vorgekommen. Aber du bist ja jetzt kein Anfaenger mehr... sondern dank meines kleinen Essays aufgeklaert. Achja... falls du wissen moechtest, wie man Bilder schoen klein (zum Versenden ueber das Internet) bekommt.. der Trick ist relativ einfach: Bildgroesse klein halten (max 600 pixel breit) und als JPG abspeichern.. MIT MAXIMALER JPG-KOMPRESSIONSEINSTELLUNG.

Bitte gebe diesen Text weiter an alle, die es noetig haben koennten.

How to make really small JPGs

Briefly:

resample (resize) to max 600 pixels wide
Optimise contrast, colours, sharpen etc..
save as JPG, Baseline (not progressive!) near maximum compression

A good programme that will help do it interactively: DownLoad it or see its WebPage HERE THE QUICK INSTRUCTIONS for this programe (do exactly as described!):

FILE - OPEN select the image-file you want (you may want to ROTATE the image upon load!)
EDIT -- CROP the picture... i.e. cut off the part of the picture that you do not need.
HUE -- TINT adjust Brightness and Contrast
COMPRESS -- move the slider down to maximum
NAVIGATOR -- zoom in to see a part of the picture close up
Re-Adjust the compression slider until you are happy with it.
FILE - SAVE AS

CHECK-Baseline - CHECK-Thumbnail/Resize ... give it a new Name: Test23 (no Capitals, no spaces!)
Click on the |...| button, and check whether the Scaled Image Width in Pixels is under 600. If not in Percentage enter 50 (or 20 or 80) press OK
Again, click on the |...| button, and check whether the Scaled Image Width in Pixels is under 600. If not, in Percentage adjust the ration-number press OK
Now your Picture Width should be under 600 pixels... Now press SAVE SCALED
Above, in the file-selector window you can now find Test23 and click on it ONCE and click the DETAILS button (the top right button!)
Now you should see how big Test23.jpg became... if you did everything right it should be amazingly small... maybe 8KB or so.
press CANCEL (as you already saved it!)

THAT's ALL!

General:
When you want to email someone a picture, or put it on a web-page ... you ought to scale it and JPG it.
Whatever software you are using make sure you can adjust the JPG compression level. It need to be tuned to the absolute minimum file-size, or in other words maximum compression.
But before you save as (filetype:) JPG, you should limit the resolution. Often 240 pixels across look very fine indeed:

this file is only 6kb !!!

First adjust the picture size to 200-500 across. The Menu command could be: resample, resize, image size or similar.
Then save as (filetype:) JPG ... and choose maximum compression. Check the resulting file-size. It should be less than 10k.

To email the picture ... in Netscape use Attachment, in other email-programmes you need to UUencode it or similar.

Here now the same instructions for DOS:
Scale your picture to 600 pixels in width and make a TARGA (24bit) or GIF (8bit) with ALCHEMY, (Shareware!), or any other cheap pixel-pusher software.

ALCHEMY -a -X600 -+ picture.bmp (picture.bmp is an example)
and now the important part ... compressing to get a JPG file ... to do that use CJPEG.EXE (download it! 39k)
CJPEG -Q 24 -o picture.TGA (or GIF)
and voilà! you have a file called picture.jpg !!!

Here is how to do it in Corel PhotoPaint:
Load the picture, scan it whatever.. at farily high resolution. Not so high that your computer takes hours to get it all in, maybe just 300dpi. Crop the picture. Pull a frame around the part of the picture you feel best, and go MASK - CROP-Image. IMAGE -- RESAMPLE: reduce the size to 1200pixels wide. EFFECTS- sharpen -sharpen 15 EFFECTS -colour - gamma 130. Make any other corrections you may need. Finally IMAGE - Resample- to 600 pixels. Now Save as type JPG-Bitmap, adjust Quality-Factor to 100. This should make small files, and keep good quality.

If you want to work the internet via email alone... here is the trick:
send mail to:
bobrankin@mhv.net
in the subject field say:
send accmail5.txt
and leave the body empty, then you'll get a 60k text via email which tells the tricks !!!
OR CLICK HERE ..USA server rtfm.mit.edu .......OR HERE.. for the "mailbase" server in th UK

If you need to anonymously blow the whistle on something or someone... the easy option is this link: Send anon email, quick via WWW Whistleblowers please!

Here is another version, which is more complicated (follow each step):

send a mail to: remailer@replay.com
subject: enter your subject!     << Must have subject!
                              << the first line must be empty!
::                            << second line two colons only
Anon-Post-To: alt.astrology   << enter the newsgroup
Cutmarks: **                  << optional (see below)
                              << must be one empty line here
your message goes here... it will be an anonymous 
message and you can say what you otherwise can't. 
Don't abuse the system ... just don't.
- No harrasing  - No commercials  - No illegal stuff

******
Frank Rosenbaum    123 Elm Street    Killroytown  NP12345  ph 786 5321012
This here will not be posted. Because is behind the ** (see Cutmarks) 
... this feature can be used to cut off your automatic signature.

Other remailers can be complicated to use, but are much safer. The above method doesn't have the highest safety. For really safe anonymous message use other machines (info below). If you have written a page which explains step by step how to use the mixmasters in Win95 ... please email me.

The interlink-bbs.com is down (had a nice "spoof address thing"). Send a mail to privacy@interlink-bbs.com to find out whether its up again. Shame! Someone abused it.

Keep your data on your Computer secret.

If you do not do this, you will be sorry when your computer got stolen, or someone spied on your data. With Win95/98 it's sooo easy thanks to the clever SCRANDISK programme.
If only all programmes would be as nice an straightforward as this one!

Download scramdisk from http://www.scramdisk.clara.net 200k
UNZIP the original file (with Winzip) under Put Scramdisk here use C:\WINDOWS folder !!
Restart your computer. Start Scramdisk with START - RUN - scramdisk (enter).
FILE -- Mount/Create -- "check HERE" yes, check it!
Filename: (unobtrusive): c:\SWAPFILE.MEM
Size: 20mB or whatever you need, Disklabel: MySecret
OK -- click on PICK RANDOM button, press ENTER and keep depressed until "Enter Password" appears. Enter a 7 to 9 letter password with number, example:
baby72ok is a good short password. Repeat Password, ENTER OK
Now go to CONFIGURE, set Password Cache clearing:   put on CLEAR
now QUIT scramdisk completetly, yes, OK.
Now open the Windows-START-button with RIGHT-CLICK on the start-button,
navigate to PROGRAMS --> START-UP --> and right-click into the startup-folder.
NEW -- SHORTCUT enter: scramdisk.exe c:\swapfile.mem    OK
Start Scramdisk, RIGHT-CLICK on the Drive-icon change Preferred Drive Letter to: P     UPDATE ... you are DONE!

Every now and then burn the c:\swapfile.mem file on a CD.

You now have a P: drive for all your personal data, and this is un-crackable except for the most powerful of agencies. Since the file swapfile.mem is COMPLETELY RANDOM data and has no identifying header, nobody can even proove that you indeed have a secret file.

Keep your data on your Computer secret.

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