On 24/01/2006 23:47, "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Reading your responses to my entries into the fray suggests that you are
> seeing a different text from me.
> Is it true that what I type as £ (pound sine) is appearing as an angstrom
> sign? I can probably find one somewhere in this powerbook but it is not on the
> first or second layer.

Some of the issues relate to the font you are using at the time, if the
reader does not have/use a similar font there will be a substitution though
this is quite a bizarre one.

Will find angstrom in the insert symbol menu

> As to spam, since I went Mac, the only place where i get spam is on this site,
> I am getting shed loads of investment offers plus several good offers on
> viagra if anyone wants them. This is worrying, how do these things target?
Mac user for 18 years and having no trouble reading/opening/saving documents
and then passing on to windoze users

No viruses, no worms and apart from the occasional hard drive failure from
intensive use have never had a bad day with them

Spap unfortuantely can occur with any email account, some very inventive
programs the last few years manage to get access to the web based versions
of lists such as this and trawl for the @ sign pulling out the text before
and after thus generating the email list for their spamming activities

Some organisations have resorted to decompilin mail as it arrives and
changing the users address I my case to mick at mac.com thus confusing the
spammer stemporarily at least

> My mail account on BTYAHOO has been spam and virus free since I shut down my
> pc and went to mac,
> I am still learning how to make it work and being a bit of a slow learner i am
> sure I am not getting the best from it, but it is mucch more resistant to
> outside attack, seems very stable and with the office package, I seem able to
> do most things I need and send it to the hospital system without worrying
> about compatability.
> I can't use the DNUK spam filter since  I don't get the images described in
> the help files so there does seem to be some compatability problem there.
> I only bought it out of middle age rebellion, my wife wouldn't let me get a
> porsche or Aston Martin and I wanted to go against the grain somewhere!
> 

Never thought about it as going against the grain but a porsche wouldn't
really appeal to anyway New machines released in last few weeks by Apple
offer an interesting option of using windows on a mac

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