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I want to quickly start off with a correction to my story on RJB Telecom last week. I had the facts wrong and this is actually good news for all paysite owners. My regular preamble will be after story #1

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I OWE A BIG BIG APOLOGY TO RJB TELECOM
This week I received an email from Bob Botto of RJB Telecom. I believe I misunderstood the facts and was confused my a semi-misleading statement from the FTC website. Bob sent me some great info so I want to share our emails to get this corrected right off the bat. The GOOD NEWS is that there has been no precident created for sending a confirming email for paysite sign ups.

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Bob Botto of RJB Telcom Inc. writes:
Andy, Your reference to the FTC case vs RJB and the requirements of RJB are
incorrect. RJB was NOT required to do anything further than we were
already doing before the FTC stepped in with their ludicrous
accusations. We have NOT been required by the FTC or any other agency to
ask members for a confirmation to renew membership. What the FTC asked was
that certain information CONTINUE to be included in the confirmation e-mail
which is sent out upon the initial charge (trial). Some examples are a
customer service link, sitename, name appearing on credit card statement etc.
There were no precedents established here, except for the fact that the
action should have never been filed in the first place. If you would like
to get your facts correct, perhaps next time you should ask.

Andy Dunn writes:
Bob, I am terribly sorry and will print this email (if this is ok with you) and issue a formal apology. I read the web stories and was just writing what I read in the following paragraph from url
www.ftc.gov/opa/2001/09/rjb1.htm

Quote from FTC page
"Under the terms of the settlement, consumers who access the Web sites in the future will be sent an e-mail confirming their agreement to purchase RJB's adult services."

If you give me your number I would like to call and apologize and I would like to allow you to add anything you wish to add to your comments to the very top story in this weeks letter since these are events that effect all webmasters in porn and non porn on billing.

Bob Botto of RJB Telcom Inc. writes:
All that quote says is that we will send a confirming e-mail of their
purchase. It doesn't say subsequent billing or anything else.
It becomes tiring after all this time, that people fail to take the time to
get the story straight. It started with the FTC action and has continued
throughout.

The FTC press release was misleading and actually made it sound like they
made us do things that we weren't already doing.

I have attached a press release that RJB released in response to the
inaccurate and misleading FTC press release. The FTC release had a lot of
spin on it in a futile attempt for them to look like they archived
something is a case which had no basis.
You can print whatever you like...no call is necessary.

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I was glad Bob wrote in since it is clear that I had misrepresented the facts stemming from the confusing FTC press release. Here is the press release from RJB regarding the settlement

<press release from RJB TELCOM>

Last week, the Federal Trade Commission issued a provocative press release announcing that RJB Telcom, Inc. and its principals, Richard (RB) and Bob Botto, had agreed to resolve the October 2000 lawsuit brought by the FTC. The FTC's press release was misleading and deceptive in several material respects. The press release incorrectly stated that RJB crammed and illegally billed consumers' credit cards and phone bills without their authorization and implied that RJB had not promptly issued credits or sent out confirming e-mails to customers. This is simply untrue. From the start of this litigation, RJB has adamantly denied any illegal or deceptive conduct, and the settlement with the FTC specifically states that there has been no admission or finding of liability. Further, although the FTC staff conducted an exhaustive investigation into the operations of RJB, searching for evidence to support its complaint, it found no evidence that RJB defrauded consumers out of a single dime.

RJB is disappointed, but not surprised with FTC's inaccurate press release. Regrettably, inaccuracy has been the hallmark of the FTC's work on this case. The FTC's own complaint and declarations were riddled with inaccurate and unsubstantiated representations from consumers and the FTC's investigator. The press release continued this pattern, inaccurately alleging that RJB operated web sites that provided free "teaser" visits and illegally billed consumers. This is simply not true.

Under the terms of the Final Injunction RJB Telcom, Inc. (1) did not pay any fine or restitution, (2) continues with the same fraud detection and prevention methods that it employed prior to the FTC lawsuit and (3) continues the same billing methods that it employed in the past. Nevertheless, the FTC still will not admit that its case was completely devoid of merit.

However, RJB believes that the Final Injunction speaks for itself. It is highly unusual in a case of this type for the FTC not to require substantial monetary payments. The FTC's decision not to seek these remedies demonstrates the weakness of the FTC's allegations against RJB. Further, the Final Injunction allows RJB to conduct its business in the same above board and honest manner that it did prior to the FTC lawsuit.

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RJB has handled this legal matter with the FTC like professionals and have shown the feds that many adult sites make an honest living. If you are looking for a new affiliate program, check out the one from the company that fought the feds and one. They have been around for years and have always paid...even when times got tough. They pay $24 to $46 a sign-up and even pay $60 on "Monday Mania!"
www.maxcash.com
www.maximumcash.com/frameindex.html

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It looks like their is absolutely no legal precident set for comfirmation emails at this time and it also looks like the FTC had a hard time finding anything wrong with the business practices of RJB. I think this is great news for all adult sites. It has been yet another busy week. My folks flew home yesterday and said that the Los Angeles and Toronto airports were smooth and they hit no major holdups. I continue to read the news at the "Times OF India"
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/
and hope for the best. The whole world is on edge and every person and business is cautious which slows the world economy to a crawl. I have a theory that this may actualy lead to a banner christmas season online. Mall shopping is way down...I can see a scenerio where we all do 90% of our christmas shopping online and it is a HUGE record setting internet sales seasons. We will have to see if this holds true. :)

I am once again trying to print the newsletter a few hours early since once again my wednesday is jam packed full of appointments tomorrow. This weeks newsletter has some cool tricks and stories. For the newbies, I answer the classic "how do I break into porn?"...I get this question maybe once every couple of weeks and is usually something like "how do I make more money" or "what am I doing wrong". This is a great set of questions and most of you old timers know I generally approach the issue from the side of "traffic". There is also some great TGP tests and stories this week. A couple more webmasters have sent in their results using some of the various script tools.

If you have ever wondered how to make your search engine the defualt one in IE, then get ready as I hack apart google's and tell you how to do this on your own.

This and even more! on with the show ->

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WEBSITE PLAYS HARDBALL WITH PORN SITES from Bruce
Bruce sent me this great artticle and as soon as I started reading it, flames were flying from my nose :) check it out
www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=humannews&StoryID=268536

Now this story bugs me for several reasons:
1. only evil porn sites target non porn words. These people are as crooked as crooked porn sites...they are targetted words that have nothing to do with the topic. This is like a porn site targetting dictionary words etc. We saw in last weeks letter that the FTC is not going to shutdown and prosecute sites that do this (and I think they should). Therefore, this stupid www.getsomereal.com should also be prosecuted

2. porn sites are literally the pro-master black ninjas of search engine spamming. Mr. "get some real" is like a babe in the woods! He has no ideas the level of the game he has entered into. If he gets 5 pages ranked top 10 on any search on a major engine, I'd shit my pants. Porn people wrote the book on engine spamming...he is so far behind the curve that it is not funny.

3. there is this one site spamming engines "get some real" and there are 3 trillion, 835 billion, 43 million, 500 thousand and 42 porn sites spamming engines with 5,000 -500,000 doors each. Mr get some real is not even a needle in a hay stack. He is a needle in the largest hay field on earth. Again, it is not even funny how he thinks he could dent porn.

wither he was just going for press, or he is very clueless. :)

Bruce agrees and writes:
Exactly. Given your last few newsletters and the latest legal issues being used to "fight" porn, I thought it was funny to see these naive people trying to use the same illegal tactics.

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BAG OF SALT TRIX TABLE O CONTENT
ANY GOOD FREE BSC CHAT CLIENTS from Peter
RE-BILLING EVEN IF FTC CLAMPS DOWN from seeing mole
GREAT SCRIPT SITE from Delay
SIMPLE JAVA POP-UP SOLUTION FOR MOUSE TRAPS from Delay
MORE PRO-LEVEL TGP POSTING from Tim
INTERNET CONNECTION SHARING from Zig
NON PORN SUCCESS STORY IN SOFTWARE SALES from Leo
HOW DO I BRAKE INTO PORN? from Tom
SECRET UNCLAIMED PROPERTY LINK from Anxious
LATEST TGP TESTING from James
DELETED DOMAIN SEARCH from Andy
PREVENTING DENIAL OF SERVICE ATTACKS from Dave

MORE NEWS
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MONSTER.COM LAYS OFF 125 from posh_spice
over 1000 empoyees! Eek!
digitalmass.boston.com/news/2001/10/02/monster.html

MOVIE AND FILM ASSOCIATIONS SUING TO BLOCK PIRACY ONLINE
www0.mercurycenter.com/premium/front/docs/music04.htm

SHAMELESS PLUGS - CAVEAT EMPTOR
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TERRORISM FORCING SALE OF LARGE ADULT SITE
Need $$ to get back on U.S. soil .. Please make offer for this site !
www.ultravistamall.com
ultravistamall@yahoo.com

NEW TRAFFIC GENERATING SCRIPT!
Sets Homepage, Favourites, many other goodies!!!
redir.as/nsoft
nsoft_contact@yahoo.com

SOFTWARE HARDWARE
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EFAX
www.efax.com
I don't remember if I have ever talked about this before but I LOVE EFAX. I have always hated fax machines and I think their days are numbered since it is so much easier to send an email. I have been using efax for about 2 years now and pay the monthly fee for efax plus. Here are some of the pros and cons on using efax. First, you are given an fax number. This has actually gotten better since I joined. My efax number is in chicago :) I think now you can get them closer to where you live. Actually I don't mind it since local cheapskates don't fax to me :) Next, ANY email you write can be instantly turned into a fax. One drawback is that efax prefers common email programs like outlook..if you use outlook, efax is even cooler. Since I use the rarer calypso, I have to take a second step. For me to send a fax through email...I have to PRINT the document with the efax printer driver and then attach it to the email. I love getting faxes in my email...it save time and paper. I can also rebundle that fax and make an efax.exe which I can send to email friends and they can then open the same fax in their email even though they are not an efax member.

The one drawback to efax is "how do you send a piece of paper". Occasionally I will need to send a pre existing document...say you needed to send someone proof of your driver's license. Well you would have to scan it....a pain in the ass but I find that 9 out of ten faxes I do not need to do this so it is a small price to pay for the efficiency of online fax management.

Efax I think has 3 levels of support...free, plus and corporate I think. Free is pretty cool and plus is not that expensive. If this interests you, check it out at
www.efax.com

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ZONEALARM PERSONAL FIREWALL
latest version
www.zdnet.com/downloads/stories/info/0,10615,57636,.html

TRIX
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ANY GOOD FREE BSC CHAT CLIENTS from Peter
Peter writes
do you know about a good, robust, lightweight, chat application for FreeBSD?, if so please let me know.

Guru-O-Gif writes:
I don't really know any but here is one
xchat
www.xchat.org/download.html
java chat client
www.borgchat.net/jIRC/chat.html

if anyone knows of others, please email andy@lips.com

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RE-BILLING EVEN IF FTC CLAMPS DOWN from seeing mole
Seeing Mole writes:
I was thinking about that there might be an end to rebilling. Does FTC has jurisdiction all over or just on US companies? If so, in order to overrule this, all you need to do is relocate the business offshore to some island in the Caribbean or something.

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RE-BILLING THOUGTS from Stephen
Stephen writes:
I agree with you about the 40% of the profits if not even more. And I wonder why RJB decided to use email confirmation to rebill trial members. I could think of easier (for the webmaster and members) and more profitable ways like: After a members trial is up have their account locked. When they sign in instead of getting access to the members area they get a big bold message like:

YOUR ACCOUNT IS LOCKED BECAUSE YOUR TRIAL IS UP.
IF YOU WANT TO CONTINUE ACCESSING THIS SITE YOU WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY BILLED
<INSERT SOME AMOUNT HERE> PER MONTH UNTIL YOU CANCEL.

And have them agree to this. If they agree you can start to rebill them. Maybe it was something the FTC wanted but I think the above idea would also be good enough.

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GREAT SCRIPT SITE from Delay
Delay writes:
I was checking out the latest sexswap. Your script site list was missing my current favorite. If you haven't checked it out it is one of the best.
www.hotscripts.com

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SIMPLE JAVA POP-UP SOLUTION FOR MOUSE TRAPS from Delay
Delay writes:
Also I agree the FTC stuff is crazy and ridiculous for the most part. You know there is a simple solution to the mouse trapping problem. Why don't they just make microsoft disable the javascript code routines that enable popups in the first place or atleast put an option in their browser (One programmer could do that in a day max) . I haven't seen a good use of popups since they came out. While I dislike them; there are already tons of third party solutions to prevent them. I would much rather see people just use the free software that is available than the FTC to create some interpretation of a law to deal with it. The only thing I would agree with them on is the pagejacking issue. This is only because search engines seem unable to combat this through any technological solution that can maintain the integrity of their search results.

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MORE PRO-LEVEL TGP POSTING from Tim
Tim writes:
I have beed using tgswpro "Thumbnail Gallery Submission Wizard" for a very long time now.
www.worldadult.com/tgsw/
I am getting an average of 75k - 100k per day submitting one gallery a day with it. The program is great save one problem. It is a total time consuming bitch to keep updated with all the appropriate tgp info. But there of course is a better option than updating by hand. There is a site run by a guy named Vince called tgswupdates.com The service Vince offers is absolutely critical to obtain if you intend to keep your sanity and an up to date tgp database. It used to take me several hours a week to keep tgsw up to date... using Vince's service updating takes about ten minutes plus the time to upload any new recip images. If you turn your readers onto Vince's site please consider using my refferal code :)
refer.ccbill.com/cgi-bin/clicks.cgi?CA=911382&PA=203510

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INTERNET CONNECTION SHARING from Zig
Zig writes:
just a quick note to let you know that ICS "internet connection sharing", is built into win98 as well, atleast the "SE" version. I recently set this up for a 6 user small office network for them all to share e-mail and browse the web from 1 machine with a standard 56k modem. it's a lil pokey as they all share the same 56k connect, but it works well for e-mail, and broadband like dsl is not yet avail in thier area yet. The ics "server" is an old win98se celeron box, the workstations are a mix of win98 se boxes and a couple winME boxes. Some people seem to like programs like sygate and wingate to do the same thing because of "percieved" security options built into these 3rd party solutions, dial-up or broadband. Thing that I see more often though is that if they are not set up correctly, your actually more at risk than with just plain old ics. this is why most irc networks actually probe your box for that software for open holes and k-line you untill you fix them before you can use your thier services....:)

personally, I like cheap and functional. ICS is already there for free and works well to get the job done, adding a simple firewall like zone alarm to the mix is reasonable protection for the average joe and is fairly easy to use for the less eggheaded people, and is fairly cheap cash wise. on a second note, along the same thread. I've never played with it, but 98se and up are supposed to have an option to simultaneously use 2 phone lines with a modem attached to each...sort of an "make your own 100k circuit" type of thing. I believe you mentioned it once in one of your newsletter a year or 2 ago. I've never tried it, but do you know anybody that has? If so, do they actually manage a 100k circuit...or is just a "load balanced" 56k?

Guru-O-Gif writes:
yes, I remember someone writing about this recently and just found it in issue 213

Jamie writes:
Tell the fellow who wrote that above to get winproxy
www.winproxy.com/
it works very well and puts the windows built in to shame. Its about 50 bucks but much easier to use. I had 4 computers running off of 2 modems, yes if he has an extra line he can piggy back 2 modems and achieve about a 112k connection, mine averaged around a hundred. Win98 and above supports multiple modems. Until I could get cable this is what I used, I had isdn for a couple years and it wasn't any better than the multilinked modems.

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NON PORN SUCCESS STORY IN SOFTWARE SALES from Leo
Leo writes:
Seeing all the stuff we talked about in print is neat. Hear is something that I am confused about. There seams to be a general understanding that one of the big reasons that people promote adult sites is because of the high rate of conversion as comparied to other service's or product sales. Everyone talks about how that it is easier to get people to buy porn than software or widgits or anything elese and that is the reason that most adult webmasters are in this business. After a lot of looking at stat's on my regular stuff I sell versus the adult stuff I promote I would have to say that is not true. I have tried promoting just about every kind or type of site in the adult industry there is and I find it easier to sell computer software than signup's for adult sites. I got my first adult site about 2 year's ago and I built it myself with a cool url but made no money then I went with hot signup programs and found the same thing true. Basically what I am asking you is if everyone is hot to promote adult sites becaus 70% of people on the Internet view porn and all the adult webmasters say the "conversion ratio is better then what gives? I run my traffic to about 10 diferent websites that I market and almost every day I sell software or other service but no porn? Im kinda confused on this. A few times I got pissed and spent the entire day and night running all my traffic to adult sites leaving all the other stuff alone and still no bucks???

Guru-O-Gif writes:
I was curious on what software Leo was selling. I wrote him back and he had this great info to ad

Leo writes:
the number 1 seller that I sell is spy or security software. there is some neat software you can buy that will find out information about anyone and it is very developed and not a toy by any means. i sell a lot of it and I get an ungodly conversion ratio for clicks to sales. If I had the ability to run as much traffic as some peole run to adult sites I would be rich in a year. I will give you the main url for "Net Detective" so you can go and look at it
www.supersnoop007.com
That is my direct link to the coprate site where you can instantly download the software. I had three sites up to promote this product but because of traffic theft and all I went to useing direct "redirect" to corprate where things are secure. The company is solid and pay's on time and I find that the software is very much in demand and sell's well. So anyway this is a good one for the book Andy because it is ten times easier to sell this type of product than porn or at least it is to me,go figure. Let me know what you think,( oh by the way even though this product sell's well for me it doesent pay a lot, I get about 33% of the sale or $11 bucks per sale).

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HOW DO I BRAKE INTO PORN? from Tom
Tom writes:
Well im sorta of new and sorta of not I have a paid site www.va2k.net I shoot most my content not top content like the big boys Im having problems getting traffic I make tons of tgp's free sites etc... I get about 9k a week and maybe a few signups a month with the signups they are staying and I chat with them and update and everything. I really love it and love to be able to create sites and bring them to life. Hell Im not looking to get rich man i put in at a min of 16 hrs a day and sometimes i have been up working 48hrs I have read and read and read till tears come out my eyes and still nothing. Is there anything you or anyone you know that can help me brake into this business and a make a little more money.

Guru-O-Gif writes:
well there is no easy answer. I always believe the key to porn and most sites is traffic. TGP traffic is generally very watery...so 9000 TGP hits might be like 1000 regular. If you are working on your site 16 hours a day, I ask you "what do you do in those 16 hours?". My guess is the answer is that you add some content, change how this thing looks over here, adjust some text over there...etc. If you have a site, I have always believe you must spend 90% of all working hours lokking for traffic. If you are not pouding the pavement for traffic every day, it is tough. When I tell people this and they try it, they say "this is boring...I hate looking for traffic....I like working on my site and I like porn". Porn is about traffic...plain and simple. It has to be your complete focus.

I then tell people...to get traffic, try maybe ten different things...not one like just TGP posting. Try and learn and try at least ten methods to generate traffic. Maybe one a week for ten week. Then at the end of those ten weeks, evaluate and decide which method you liked the best and did well for your site. Now focus on that one method and become a complete expert. Do that one method and only that one and become the king of that traffic method. Here is an example...search engines...some new webmasters think you sumbit a page or two and you are done....the top pros have spent years developing their craft...using hundreds of domains, cloaking, submission scripts, page creation scripts etc. Each field of traffic collection requires expertise since you are competing with 500,000 adult webmasters al chasing the same buck.

The tough news is that the easy traffic is gone and has been gone for a couple years. It takes more work each month to get the same traffic and sing-up rates. My favorite approach was always to try and find newer or unexplored methods. Then write custom scripts and try to exploit some situation. I always like to be digging for gold in a new area..just because I enjoy that sort of thing...but others prefer old tried and true methods that they can compete in

It has always been my belief that if you focus on traffic, and not tits, you will go much further in this business. I used to say "I know a lot of broke photoshop experts and I know a lot of rich traffic masters".

Tom writes:
I go to message boards I submit I read and ask for help most of them people are newbies as my self. Hell Ill be willing to do anything at this point to break in

Guru-O-Gif writes:
spend your time asking people what is their best way of getting traffic to their site. Some will talk and some won't. Then ask the script they use and exactly how they get those hits. Spend your time asking webmasters how they exactly get their hits. These are the things I talk with my ICQ buddies all day...sharing traffic ideas and script ideas.

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SECRET UNCLAIMED PROPERTY LINK from Anxious
Anxious writes:
AD, Here is a cool link to state unclaimed property sites. Definitely worth a mentnion in the newsletter as it is a link to all of the state unclaimed property web sites, many of which allow you to search online for any unclaimed property/cash that has been submitted to the state by banks, insurance agencies, etc.
www.proto1.com/state.htm
I found something for one of my relatives in California. Worth a check

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LATEST TGP TESTING from James
James writes:
Just an update. I hope that info for the newsletter helped out a little...
I set up the following domain www.freexxxsex.ws as a free site with
thumbnail galleries. I have set up 8 galleries in the main area... covering
various interests. I have only submitted 3 of the galleries so far (#'s 1-3)
and have tracked the hits/traffic from the beginning.
I think these stats prove that tgp software is very powerful!
stats.sexlist.com/?TSLID=149637&PASSWORD=buz433914

5 galleries are yet to be submitted!!! So keep an eye on the stats!!!
BTW: Stats start from the 4th when the site started... so I have tracked all
hits from day 1! Well, the only problem I am still having is finding converting sponsors. However, I am signing up to many programs and actively testing each of them out to hopefully find some nice converters... might have to give the ol blind links a try! Anyway hope your weekend was a good one and I look forward to chatting again during the week!!!

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DELETED DOMAIN SEARCH from Andy
Andy writes:
Oh ya, I'm sure you've seen this, but here it is just in case ( I like it a lot better than a lot of the other expired dsomain lists I've seen. I'm still reeling, I almost snagged www.xdc.com last week. Some bastard outbid me at the last little bit. :(
whois.net/searchD.cgi2

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PREVENTING DENIAL OF SERVICE ATTACKS from Dave
Dave asks:
Do you know of a way to prevent Denial of Service attacks? I've heard of a script or something to protect the server.

Guru-O-Gif writes:
Here are 3 tutorials on it and how to prevent it.

linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2000/03/10/netadmin/ddos.html
cio.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios113ed/113ed_cr/secur_c/scprt3/scdenial.htm
www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/newsflash.html

INTERESTING SITES
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SNOPES AWESOME URBAN LEGEND SITE from Dave
Dave writes:
Maybe you already know... maybe you already used this one...I got it from CNN. Place that researches all those bull-shit email urban legends. Click "Rumors of War" at the top.
www.snopes2.com/

Guru-O-Gif writes:
here is another great one that I always have bookmarked
urbanlegends.about.com/

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MCMASTER ROTARY ENGINE
I read about this also in this months Business2.0, This old 85 year old millionaire may be onto a new engine. It may be clean burning and only have two moving parts, about the size of a bread box and 200HP. If it is true, it will be huge...but there are many claims by people on wierd engines so until there is a prototype, take it all with a bag of salt. I do give the old guy credit since he has made 300+ million on other inventions over the years so he is crafty.
www.mcmastermotor.com/
www.mcmastermotor.com/technical.htm
www.business2.com/articles/web/0,1653,17358,00.html (that link will work after oct 10)

GURU OF GIF
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BEAR STORY LINK from Lanus
Lanus writes:
Hiya Andy,
. Did you left out the bear story on purpose or have you forgotten to post the URL? If you still have it, please send me the url. =)

Guru-O-Gif:
Hey Lanus! I wanted to post the story but it is their front page which changes eer day so the stary was gone and no way to find it since they don't archive. I thought since it was gone that the story would be less funny with the link...here is the link for today's northern news. Today the events seems more normal :)
www.thesudburystar.com/nf/nfpage.asp

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7 HABITS OF SUCCESSFUL DOTCOMS
I read this interesting article in Business2.0 this week and most of it I agree with. Mainstream sites are finally seeing the light. Stay small, hire tech crazed late night geeks, and buy the big guys for pennies on the dollar when they go under. An interesting read
www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,17421,FF.html

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5 IE KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS I DID NOT KNOW
I decided to hold down the CTRL key and try the alphabet using IE to see some of the hidden commands. Then I found out there are websites with all the IE keyboard shortcuts. Here are 5 that I thought were cool. You may already know some or all of them. These were all pretty well news to me and are saving me time from clicking
CTRL I - show favorites down left
CTRL H - show history dwn left
STRL E - show search down left
CTRL D - add to favorites
CTRL B - organize favorites

and here is a great little command I found for windows which I can't do since I use the happy hacker keyboard and I don't have that wierd window key. Hold down the Windows key and hit D and you get everything minimized and down to your clean desktop...a great time saver.

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MAKE YOUR SEARCH ENGINE THE DEFAULT
I always hate when sites force this on me and I get their goofy goto search engine BS in my IE search button. I decided to se how they do it and there is a polite way. If you run any sort of search engine, you might consider asking user if they "want to make this your default engine". I found the could by accident while fiddling with the google page that does this. Go here and look in the IE section
www.google.com/options/defaults.html#default

You can OPEN the link for IE and it switched your default search button OR you can download it and crack it out and see stuff like this. I will make up a search engine...my old domain WEBWEED will be used in this example

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]
"Search Page"="www.webweed.com"
"Search Bar"="www.webweed.com/ie"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchURL]
""="www.webweed.com/keyword/%s"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search]
"SearchAssistant"="www.webweed.com/ie"

that is essentially the code. Crack open the google one to be double sure and you will see how to ask users if they are interested in making you their default engine. It is interesting that you are really just redirecting the user to an alternative mini page....here is google's
www.google.com/ie

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TESTING TGP SCRIPTS AND TRAFFIC from Anonymous
One of my close ICQ pals and I have been IM-ing all week as he tests the waters of the TGP world. Anon has tried every script known to man and is pro-master in traffic collection so these are very interesting results

Day 1 - Anonymous writes
1300 off of the tgp posting today maybye it just takes a while will let ya know the results..

Day 2 - Anonymous writes
th tgp has netted 5000 views of the tgp today. But the click throughs are like 100 to my site. So maybye they are counting 100,000 gallery views and not clickthroughs to thier sites. only lesst than 2% click anything so if you get 100K a day then your only getting 2K click thoughs :(

Day 4 - Anonymous writes
The TGP is up to 15,000 a day now but Like I said before the click through is horrid. I can see why these guys with like 400,000 traffic a day only make $5-10K a month and that 25K I am getting is converting to about 300 clicks a day into my actual sites I am promoting..So I can see how basically your hosting cost on a 400K site would be a big cut out of your profit

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BUTCHER COBRA UPDATE
the car is just about done. I have been so busy working on it that I have not had time to write about it. I was a little disappointed with my painting. The car looks good from 2 feet away but up close it looks rougher. I have decided I will repaint it again in the spring. I have learnt from my mistakes. It still looks pretty good and I will have pics and stories next week!

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BOXING AND FIGHTING UPDATES
Well the UFC last week was pretty good but not great since the title fight was switched when Vitor hurt his arm. I would give the event a 7/10. The big news was the Hopkins fight. What a fight. It was a 10/10. HUGE. It was one of the top ten fights of all time. Hopkins named "Boxer Of The Year". A massive upset from an underdog. It even had a rare 12th round knock out! WOW. Great stuff. This week is yet another week of awesome match up

TYSON - SAT OCT 13
this week the infamous Mike Tyson once again steps into the ring. Mike Tyson is a press magnet. He can sell ticket like no other fighter.
www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/Sunday-Times/stispsbox03002.html?
dailynews.philly.com/content/daily_news/2001/10/09/sports/FERN09S.htm

PRIDE - SAT OCT 13
This is the Japan show of mixed martial arts and it is one word "awesome". 40,000 fans in attendance and front page news the next day. This is the cream of the crop of "no holds barred" fighting. The big names will be Don "the predator" Frye, and Mark the "Hammer" Coleman. Should be outstanding matchups.

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