Tuesday, February 3, at 11:30 am at Crossroads Mall. We got snowed out last month and couldn’t greet each other with a Happy New Year. So let’s do it this month and share you New Year’s resolutions with your friends too!

Tuesday, February 17, at 10:00 am at the Crossroads Community Center (near Bartells) we will be gathering for our monthly meeting.

GRANPAL, MARY CARTER, HONORED

BY OVERLAKE HOSPITAL AS

CONNECTIONS MEMBER OF THE YEAR 2003

Mary, a familiar face to many at Overlake Hospital, not only attends many Connections events and classes, but volunteers regularly for the Senior Care/Connections and Human Resources departments. She volunteers for Connections one afternoon a week, tirelessly working with the computer data base, entering the names of new Connections members and correcting addresses of those who have moved. She also maintains the mailing list for the Caresharing newsletter, which goes out to over 1,500 Eastside families. She also works one afternoon a week in the Human Resources (personnel) department. Sherry Neunherz of Human Resources speaks highly of Mary’s contributions, describing her as dedicated and dependable, with a warm and caring personality.

Mary was employed by Overlake Hospital for fourteen years and retired in 1966 but soon returned as a volunteer. She also volunteers as a granpal at Phantom Lake Elementary School. "I was taking a SeniorNet computer class there," she said. "In exchange for use of the space, it was expected that some of the class members would help out at the school." Mary helps with the same third grade class each week and enjoys getting to know the children.

When asked what advice she has for others who might consider volunteer work, Mary says, "I think that anything that exercises your brain and expands your social life, something you have to work for, is worth doing."

ARE YOU TIRED OF SPAM?

Spam (the title I gave to my spam examples. See discussion below)

Junk Suspects

The rest goes directly into your inbox.

The program works best if you have examples of spam in a separate folder in your Outlook e-mail program. I added a new "Spam" folder and then searched through my "Deleted Items" folder to identify the spam messages. I had about 80 examples (the more examples that you have the sooner the filter becomes accurate at finding spam). The program will automatically search through everything that you have in your "Inbox" folder to learn what e-mail you consider as non-spam (therefore you want to be sure you have eliminated all spam from your "Inbox" before installing this program).

Once it has been installed it will automatically sort the mail. The program will add icons line below your Outlook Toolbars that gives you the ability to correct any misinterpreted sorting (i.e. a "Delete as Spam" icon and a "Recover from Spam" icon). The program is very accurate. It has several times put items in my "Inbox" that I would have guessed to be spam but they were legitimate messages.

Whenever I have a message where I question the sorting assignment, I right click on the message "Subject" and select "Options" from the menu. This will display the full header information and the "plain text" information in the message. If the e-mail is an HTML formatted message, the "plain text" will show the source code for the e-mail message. Even in this latter case it is easy to quickly verify the category that the message belongs in. Since the program is so accurate, you seldom have to use this last technique.