July 2003

• LACEY Lethbridge Area Community Events - Your online guide - View for current community events particularly for readings in Lethbridge.
• Lethbridge Naturalist Society - their website provides a copy of their monthly newsletter.  Get meeting and membership information.  Visit their website for information on 2002/2003 executive.

Lethbridge Photography Club

Visit Lacey for general information.

Michael St. George

is currently launching his album that will be distributed through Passin' Thru, Dubbin' De Vibes while in Jamaica.

Charles Noble

recently completed a launch of Doubt's Boots and new website:  CharlesSNoble.com

Improving the Performance of your Email

Your Inbox

The fewer messages you keep in your Inbox, the quicker your email program will open and the quicker you can read and send messages.  If the size of your Inbox forces your email program to work for several minutes every time you log into your account, then you should know that you are taking server processor time away from other computer application processes. Managing your Inbox is easily accomplished by following two easy guidelines. First, delete messages you no longer need and remove them from your account. Second, create folders and use them, filing your messages as you receive them.

Reduce Your Stored Messages:  Saving Copies of Sent Messages

If you do not need to keep a copy of every message you send, then do not do so. By default, many email programs save such a copy.  In Outlook Express, a copy is stored in the Sent Items folder. If you do not need copies of your messages, turn  this feature off. 

Stop saving copies in Outlook Express:

1. Run the program and access the Tools menu.

2. Select Options.  An Options window is invoked. 

3. Click on the Send tab.

4. Remove the check mark from the box in front of Save copy of sent messages in the Sent Items folder.

When you create a message that you want a copy of, enter your address or an appropriate nickname in the CC: or BCC: line.  When a copy of that message arrives in your Inbox, you can file it away.

In your address book, create an entry for yourself (if one does not already exist) and enter a nickname, such as "me".

Filing Messages

Filing messages into folders keeps the Inbox clear and speeds up your email session.

Multiple levels of folders are available, so you can have subfolders within folders. Timely and efficient filing of messages reduces the number of messages in any one folder.  This shortens the amount of time necessary to open the folder and download your message headers. Thus, by moving messages into folders and subfolders, you can take care of your business faster.

To create a folder in Outlook Express:

1. Invoke the File menu.

2. Select Folder and then New from the drop-down menus.

A window will appear containing a list of your existing folders. Type in the name of the new folder you wish to create. (Note: If you want to create a new subfolder under an existing folder, highlight the existing folder first and then specify the new folder name.  If you make a mistake, drag the subfolder and drop it onto the folder where you want it placed.)

Deleting Messages

Do not save deleted messages.

Despite the name of the command, messages don't always get deleted when you click on Delete.  Instead the messages are compacted (i.e., stored) in the background of your account. Eventually these accumulated compacted messages can slow down computer response. To avoid potential problems, change your email configuration to remove deleted messages upon exiting the program.

Handling deleted messages in Outlook Express

1. Open the email program and click on the Tools menu.

2. Select Options from the pull-down menu then click on the Maintenance tab of the Options window.

If you remove all check marks under Cleaning Up Messages, messages will either disappear from your folder when you click on Delete or they may be marked with a red X. However, messages are not removed from your folder in either case until you click on the Purge button.

Selecting the second option, Purge deleted messages when leaving IMAP folders, will automatically purge deleted messages as you move around among your folders.

Note: You should not select options one or three as your only option. The Deleted Items folder mentioned in option one is a local folder and is not available for cleaning up IMAP messages. Selecting option three, Compact messages in the background, does not get rid of the messages you have deleted until you click on the Purge button to remove them. If you do not occasionally purge the "compacted" messages, these messages can build up in your folder and adversely effect the performance of your email program.

Updated Sites and Pages

• Minda Rogerson, Sutton Group Lethbridge — Lethbridge real estate services, new and updated listings with one of Lethbridge's most popular real estate agents..
• Charles Noble — April 2003 release, Doubt's Boots for U of C Press.
• Teeniestown.com — for teens.
• New websites:  UrbanRattlesnakes.com contains the Lethbridge Project and Western Reptiles Symposium for early October.
• Upcoming websites: 
  • MarleneLacey.com
  • SethAdrianHarris.com
  • MichaelStGeorge.com — New look coinciding with the launch of Dubbin' De Vibes.