Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 19:01:49 -0400 From: Steven Allen Subject: Boston Windows User Group June 28 Meeting Monday, June 28, 1999 --------------------- How We Do Email =============== Boston Windows User Group ------------------------- 7:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. Speakers at 8:00 --------------------- How do others handle their email? What are the characteristics and relative advantages of the various available email-boxes and email clients? Pat Ryan, BWUG Member, builds on BWUG's collective experience and diversity with a survey in which members tell us how they do it and why. We cover the Outlooks, Eudora, archiving, ISP mailboxes, "free" mailboxes, web-based mailboxes, permanent aliases, etc. Prior to the main topic, Charisse Sebastian brings us up to date on Y2K. Location: Microsoft's Multipurpose Room, 6th floor, 230 Third Ave, Waltham, MA, which has Parking and has Wheelchair access. Directions: Take Route 95/128 to Exit 27A. Go south on Third Ave passing between the northbound 95/128 and the Westin Hotel. Reaching Third Ave requires a U-turn to the right from the northbound 95/128 exit or a "cross the overpass and turn right" from the southbound 95/128 exit. From Third Ave, turn left onto Fourth Ave immediately after the Westin. Go to end, turn right and follow signs for Prospect Place. Bear right at the fork and follow signs to Visitor Parking. Lobby is on second floor. Also see map on http://www.bwug.org/events. ***************************************************************** ****** Meet us at Bertucci's Restaurant at 5:30. ****** ****** We expect some speakers to join us. ****** ****** It's in the small strip mall diagonally across ****** ****** the 95/128 intersection with Winter St ****** ****** from the meeting location. Use exit 27B. ****** ****** From northbound exit take a right at the traffic ****** ****** light, then bear right to cross 95/128. ****** ****** Blend with southbound exit traffic, go past ****** ****** Bertucci's and take a right into the mall. ****** ***************************************************************** Pat Ryan is also our Ride Coordinator. You can earn double raffle tickets by bringing a person in need of a ride or may obtain a ride if you need one. ****** Future BWUG Meeting ****** Monday, July 26, 1999, 7:00 p.m. -------------------------------- "Your Security Issues on the Internet" How much should the typical user worry? This spring, Melissa showed how quickly a virus can spread - to at least 100,000 Windows users in a day. Richard M. Smith, President of Phar Lap Software, http://www.pharlap.com, who helped locate the alleged author of Melissa, shares insights based on his two-year study of security problems in Email readers and Web browsers. He discusses some of the critical network security problems in Windows and what users and the Industry can do to solve them.