MEMBER LIBRARY WEEKLY BULLETIN
No. 03-40 October 3, 2003
Since e-mail Spam has become such a nuisance I thought I would list some tips that were published in the 9/29/2003 issue (volume 20, number 39) of eWeek. These tips are meant to help educate the end user (you) on how to avoid becoming a spam target in the first place.
Use your company e-mail for business use only. If you need to register something, use a yahoo or hotmail account.
Provide your e-mail address only to trusted parties.If you do need to make your e-mail address public, describe it in a manner similar to the following: "rhelwig at flls dot org".
Don't respond or attempt to unsubscribe to spam; this serves only to validate your e-mail address. For the same reason, do not click on Web links embedded in suspect mail.
Report any spam that you do get. Here is the FAQ from Road Runner. "Road Runner recommends that, if you receive unsolicited or unwanted e-mail from another source, you contact the person responsible for the incident, or the Internet Service Provider through which the incident occurred. In order to assist our Security department in blocking spam, please forward the spam in its entirety to them. For instructions on what information is required to block spam and how to provide that information, please send a blank e-mail to spaminfo@security.rr.com with "Request Info" in the Subject line."There currently is no officially recognized "do not spam" list; signing up for a supposed do-not-spam list is likely equivalent to saying, "Yes, please send me even more unsolicited mail."
In closing, I hate spam as much as the rest of you. I spend some time each day adjusting our spam filter on our mail server and I still get spam. In the end we are still in control of the delete key, so delete away.
System Meeting Topic Survey
If you haven’t yet returned your green System Meeting Topics Survey, please do it today! We want to know what you’d like to know! Please send your response to me. You may fax them, e-mail your choices (dianam@flls.org), or send them through the delivery. Deadline is Friday October 10. Thank you!
FLLS-Y Listerv
The FLLS-Y Youth Services Listserv for member libraries has begun! If you signed up for this listserv, but are have not received any messages, please let me know!
Finger Lakes Fall Bus Tour
We are in the final stages of planning a Bus Tour of new library buildings in the Finger Lakes region. It will be taking place on Thursday, October 30th.
The tour will start in Ithaca at FLLS around 8:30 AM, and end in Ithaca at 3:30 PM. In between, we will visit the Ulysses Philomathic Library in Trumansburg, the Mynderse Library in Seneca Falls, and the Powers Library in Moravia, with a stop for lunch in Aurora at the Aurora Inn.
Mark your calendars now and look for an informational flyer that will be coming in your delivery this next week.
Top fifteen titles on Dynix
Want to know what people are reading and reserving throughout the system?
Here’s the list! Does your library own these titles?
Title Author # holds Dynix Bib#
1. The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown 63 940187
2. Living History Hillary Clinton 42 952280
3. Bleachers John Grisham 41 966674
4. To the Nines Janet Evanovich 32 958194
5. Blindside: an FBI Thriller Catherine Coulter 31 959282
6. The Wedding Nicholas Sparks 27 965930
7. A Place of hiding Elizabeth George 25 959287
8. Under the Banner of Heaven Jon Krakauer 18 957865
9. The Lake house James Patterson 16 951232
10. The curious incident of the Mark Haddon 16 945872dog in the night-time
11. Angels & Demons Dan Brown 16 821812
12. Remember When Nora Roberts 15 966287
13. The Sinner Tess Gerritsen 14 964435
14. The Teeth of the Tiger Tom Clancy 14 961978
15. Sweet Dreams Faye Kellerman 14 961048
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