• Find Your Way Among the Weblogs
  If you want to know what people are saying in the popular Weblogs, try visiting www.daypop.com. Among the listings there, you'll find the Top 40 links popular with bloggers from around the world.

  Other lists for you to investigate are Top News, Top Posts, Word Bursts, News Bursts, and Top Weblogs. The last list selects 100 from more than 41,000 Weblogs available.

• Blocking Web Ads
  A way to block Web advertising from coming to you based upon the Web sites you have visited in the past is to download a HOSTS file. You can download and install a continually updated HOSTS file at www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm. A HOSTS file works like a phone directory that converts Web addresses to IP addresses used to identify Web servers and blocks requests to servers that deliver advertising and prevents the server from tracking you.
  

• Winning E-Story Submitted by: Judy Martin
  Two weeks ago my husband was in India on a mission trip to teach native pastors. His near 50 hour flight there and the long distance from home was made much easier by getting an e-mail from him the day after he arrived! What made this unique was that electricity was only available several hours a day and that was his only chance to let me know he had arrived safely! We thank the Lord for e-mail via NATCO!

  Judy Martin just earned two free months of NATCO Internet service! Submit your E-Story today and you could be our next winner! Remember that you can enter more than once. So, if you didn’t win this time, try again! Just go to www.natcotech.com/estories.htm and tell us how using NATCO’s Internet or e-mail service has made your life easier, helped you promote or manage your business, or simply how much you enjoy using the Internet and e-mail. If your E-Story is chosen, you’ll win two months of free NATCO dialup Internet service ($19.95 x 2 =$39.90) or an equivalent credit on your DSL or ISDN account.

• Win a Gift at South Shore Web Site
  Have you visited the South Shore Web site at www.southshore.com recently? It's the electronic community for the towns on and near the south shore of Bull Shoals Lake and it's packed with information for local residents and tourists. Now you may win a South Shore souvenir - a tee shirt, a cap, chiller cups, and more - by just clicking on the tee shirt at the top right corner of the home page. Sign up, and you may be a winner!

  James Brakebill is the first winner of a South Shore tee shirt! Congratulations, James.

  While at the South Shore Web site, you may learn about the towns in the area - each has its own Web page, compliments of South Shore. Find something fun to do on the Calendar of Events. Keep up with the South Shore Soccer Association, the Marion County Youth Leadership Team and the Marion County Adult Leadership Team. Every week there are new articles and a tour of the area is spotlighted.
  

• Using Multiple E-mail Addresses
  To fight spam (electronic junk mail), consider creating multiple e-mail addresses or accounts. Use one address for family and friends only. Do not post this address online or give it to merchants. Your second address can be used online and for purchases. If you begin to receive unwanted e-mail at this address, you can delete that account while not affecting your primary address.
  

• Weekly Maintenance on Wednesday
  Each Wednesday morning from 12:01 until 5, NATCO Technologies performs regular maintenance on Internet equipment. Your Internet service should not be affected. But, if you do experience an interruption in service during this time, please try again a few moments later. We try to minimize any "down time" by doing our maintenance at a regular time each week.
   
  All users agree to terms and guidelines published at www.natcotech.com/guidline.htm.

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NATCO Technologies does not endorse or recommend any software or program. The purpose of the articles included in this newsletter is to keep our customers informed. We do not provide free technical support for software or programs such as Norton, McAfee, AVG Anti-Virus, Instant Messenger Services, etc. Please see the NATCO Internet brochure for full details on what is and is not covered by our free Internet Technical Support.