Module Two: Lists

I browsed the Yahoo Lists but realised I have no available time for any group right now. The pros of group lists are that a constant stream of information from a subject is sent to your email account. The cons are the same: if you want to take a rest from a group, it is still constantly sent to your email (if you have it set up like this).

Module Two: Reflective Questions

1. It is possible to tell the username, at which domain it belongs, and often whether or not it was a forwarded mail, and through whom it has been forwarded.
2. CC: is used if you want to send a copy of the message to someone else apart from the recipient. Useful for notifying a connected thrid party that a communication has been made between two people. BCC: Is same as CC except adds the function that the recipient is not made aware of the copy sent out. Reply All is useful in order to send a reply to every person on the recieving list of a message you've recieved, such as in in group communications, ie clubs, friends. Can be a dangerous function!
3. Use easily opened file types eg .txt, .jpg. Make files smaller, eg. convert .bmp to .jpg. Zip or RAR large files or large numbers of files (another from of compression), but be aware that file types must be opened by the end user, so inform them that the will need WIn RAR if you have sent a .Rar or Acrobat if you have sent a .Pdf for example.
4. I have my email account set to exclusive, so only emails that have addresses saved into my address book or safe list are put into my email inbox. This filter out Junk Mail, but requires, however, that I check my Junk Email (where everything else goes) occasionally to make sure that people are not sending me things that I do want to recieve but from unrecognised accounts. I then add them to my contacts or safe list to avoid future slip ups (Junk Mail is deleted every ten days).
5. My folder structure is organised into inbox, junk mail, comedy, writing.
Most emails remain in my inbox, organised by date, where i can search for mails by keywords and usernames. Comic emails are transferred into Comedy folder, so there is a stock of comedy for future reference. Writing is saved for emails relating to my business, writing childrens books. Junk mail is used as per answer 4.

Module Two: Task 1: Email

Began Task, though without enthusiasm, as Email seems too basic for much consideration. Started tutorial, learned 3 Billion Emails sent per day. 2 Billion Spam perhaps? Nothing new in Net Tutor Tutorial, as first thought.

Module 1: Task 3: Traceroute

I attempted to use Samspade.org to do a traceroute from WebCT to Samspade. It didn't work. I then remembered a post on WebCt by Brent who had had a similiar problem. Cynthia's reply made it clear that the Samspade.org traceroute task was a trick, in that it was known not to work. Note to self: beware of trickery in this unit. I then tracerouted from Webct to www.Telstra.net via a different website (found by typing traceroute into Google): http://www.completewhois.com/traceroute.htm.

The Ip Address of WebCT was:

134.7.34.197

There were 18 'Hops' between the two sites.

The average hop time appears to be around 50 ms.
The entire time taken would be around 900 ms.

Module 1: Task 2: FTP

When instructed to undertake the File Transfer Prorocol Task, I already had an FTP Browser, included with Getright Download Manager. I entered ftp://recall.curtin.edu.au as the FTP Address and downloaded the readme, where I learned that CAPITALISATION MATTERS. This task was quite easy as I have already had a lot of experience with FTP, both in downloading files and uploading files to Web Servers.

Task One: Telnet

I used my windows telnet application (accessed by typing telnet:// in the URL box of Firefox browser) to access library.deakin.edu.au. I searched for Author: Bennahum, and emailed the resulting record to my oasis account. The title of the book was:

Managed care : financial, legal, and ethical issues

Web Addresses

There is generally no need to type in the www prefix when entering a web address.

Getting Started with 202

Today I started work on my Net Studies Interent Communications unit. I created a Yahoo account as instructed, emailed my tutor as I had not yet recieved a discussion list email to my university (oasis) email account, read through the assignment list and created a blog in which to log my progress (assignment 4).