Noticed A Decrease In Your Unsolicited Emails?
Looking For A Way To Get Fewer Bills?
What Do The Various Parts Of A Web Address Mean?
Avoiding Common Computer & Internet Pitfalls
Great Sites To Check Out This Month
Short Tutorial - Deleting Bookmarked Favorites From Your Browser
We hope so. Providing you the best possible services is of utmost importance to Gallatin River Communications, so we’ve added filters on our email servers which reject unsolicited bulk email and virus-infected email sent to your Gallatin River Communications address. Although no filter will stop all junk emails, our new filters screen and reject emails from “known” spammers.
Over half of the world’s email today is spam or junk mail, and the tidal wave is rising. Inboxes are inundated, and email users are frustrated by the time they waste sorting and deleting spam and junk email.
Our enhanced systems will block most of these offending messages. The filter guarding your inbox will notify the sender when we reject a message, telling them the message has not been delivered. If a sender feels that the rejected message is not spam or junk mail, they can take action to have their address and domain removed from the nationally-maintained spam and junk mail listings.
Virus infections are also growing at an alarming rate. Many are delivered via email messages, causing grave damage to individual computers as well as the World Wide Web. Although virus infections can be spread in a number of ways including floppy disk drives or even CDROM disks, most of today’s viruses arrive embedded in email messages or their attachments.
You will see a new display on your Gallatin River Communications web portal page www.gallatinriver.net showing how many virus infections and spam messages we have blocked this month for all of our customers. It is updated every four hours.
Thank you for choosing Gallatin River Communications for your communications services. We are committed to providing the best possible services to all of our valued customers.
Every month, they come pouring in. A bill from your long distance carrier. A bill from your Internet service provider. A bill from us. Every month, you keep track of them all, pay them all, and send them all back out.
Fortunately, there's a solution: get your communication services in one handy dandy package from us! You'll get just one monthly bill - with one very nice monthly discount - from one dependable local company. With one simple call, we'll help you choose a package of services to fit your needs.
And now, residential customers can add 100, 300, 500 or 700 long distance minutes to your local phone service package for a flat fee. So every month, you'll know how long you can talk and how much you'll pay. And you'll pay just one bill for all your calling services, local and long distance. How simple!
Call today to choose the numbers of minutes that's right for you*. Talk to you soon.
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WITH LONG DISTANCE PRICES LIKE THESE, EVERYONE'S TALKING. 100 minutes for $9.95 300 minutes for $21.95 500 minutes for $31.95 700 minutes for $41.95 |
Gallatin River Communications
Residential 800-223-1851
Business 800-371-6712
*Overage minutes will be billed at a slightly higher per minute rate than the package-of-minutes rate.
Question: I was wondering what all the parts of a website address mean? They look like some sort of secret code.
Answer: It is a type of code but it's really no secret. Let's take a look at a fictitious website address: http://www.yourdomainhere.com. A website address is called a URL which stands for Universal Resource Locater. So when someone wants you to send them a URL, they're asking you to send them the address for the web page. Here's how this URL breaks down.
http - This is the protocol for the address. The "http" stands for HyperText Transfer Protocol. It tells you that the address is using the http "scheme" or technique to transfer web pages to you. It's the most common protocol in use. Another common method is FTP or File Transfer Protocol which is used for downloading files.
www - This stands for World Wide Web or the Web.
yourdomainhere - This is the name of the domain of the website and the computer that hosts the website. Every site has a different name.
.com - This part of the domain name of the URL is called the "zone." There are several different zones available but the most commonly used is .com (COMmercial). There are also zones for organizations (.org), for network providers (.net), and for countries (.uk - for United Kingdom).
What about the stuff that comes after the zone? Those are often the names of folders that contain graphics or pages or the names of pages themselves. Pages will have an ending like .htm or .html. Pictures have names ending in .gif or .jpg among others. Folder names have no endings and are surrounded by slashes. So, a page in a folder would look something like this... http://www.yourdomainhere.com/webpages/articles.html. This means an html page named articles.html is in the folder named "webpages" on the host machine yourdomainhere.com on the World Wide Web using HyperText Transfer Protocol. It's not too complicated once you know the code.
The Internet was originally designed with principles of trust and open communication in mind. That helps make the Internet a great source of news, information, education and entertainment. Unfortunately, it also means that computers on the Internet are not always very secure, and hackers who take advantage of the openness of the Internet can cause a lot of damage.
Your web browser, e-mail program, instant message client, and countless other programs give you a window onto the Internet, but may also put your computer at risk of being hacked. That's why it's important to protect your own computer from Internet-based intrusions.
Don't panic, though! With the right tools, it's not very difficult to protect your computer! We've created a web page listing several pitfalls that are common for computers and computer users, and what you can do about it. You’ll find information on how you can keep your computer safe from hackers, viruses, junk e-mail, spyware and adware, pop-up ads, and other threats at http://www.gallatinriver.net/local/tools/pitfalls.php .
Web Cams Of Fall Foliage
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/fallcolor/cams.html - Autumn is a beautiful time of the year to do some traveling around North America and get outdoors to see the many colors of nature. The vibrant foliage on display by many types of trees and shrubs can be breathtaking. To get a glimpse of what's out there, check out the links to the many web cams located across the U.S. via the University of Illinois Extension Office's website. It's the next best thing to being there.
Good Boy! - The Movie
http://goodboy.com/ - Jim Henson Pictures (Henson is the guy who created The Muppets) and MGM have partnered in the production and distribution of a new action movie called "Good Boy!". The dogs featured in the film are a combination of actual animals, special effects and CGI (Computer-Generated Imagery). Voiceover talent includes Matthew Broderick and Carl Reiner. Check out the movie trailer located on the movie's homepage. It looks like a great show for the entire family. It's rated PG because of some mild crude humor.
Costumes For Halloween Or Pretend Play
http://kidsdomain.com/craft/_hcostume.html - Are you looking for some ideas on making homemade Halloween costumes for the kids this year? Well, this is just the site for you. It includes a listing of needed materials as well as step-by-step instructions for over forty different costume ideas. Whether your youngster wants to be a ladybug, a pizza slice, Superman or a duck -- this site can help you out.
National Anthems From Around The Globe
http://imagesoft.net/flags/anthems.html - There's no need to wait until the next Olympic Games to listen to the national anthems of countries from around the globe. This site lists over 180 countries. Simply turn up the sound on your computer and click on the country of choice. Check out Liechtenstein's national anthem. Does it sound familiar?
Major League Baseball's World Series
http://mlb.com - This year marks the 100th Anniversary of Major League Baseball's World Series. This site provides links to current and past postseason results, photo galleries of dramatic playoff and World Series moments, listings of champions by year and by club, listings of all-time batting and pitching leaders in World Series history and much more. Let's play ball!
If you've been surfing the Internet awhile, you've no doubt saved lots of your favorite websites on your browser using the "Favorites" feature of your Internet Explorer browser. After time, however, many of these sites are no longer of interest to you and you may want to remove some of them from your list of bookmarked sites. To do so, follow the steps below.
Windows Operating System and Internet Explorer Browser:
1) Click your cursor arrow on the "Favorites" menu on the menu bar.
2) Select "Organize Favorites" from the drop-down menu. The "Organize Favorites" window will appear.
3) On the left side are four buttons, one of which enables you to delete favorites. To delete a bookmarked web page, select it by clicking on its name.
4) Click your cursor arrow on the "Delete" button. A dialog box will appear asking if you are sure you want to send the link to the Recycle bin.
5) Click "yes."
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Thanks for your business!
Gallatin River Internet