Chat

I used to chat online regularly but rarely do so anymore, most of that was using an IRC client and sometimes using ICQ. Although I have MSN already installed I decided to try ICQ again, which I have not used for many years. I was unable to find my old ICQ number so after installing [...]

Newsgroups

I have not used Newgroups for many years. My email client Thunderbird also has the ability to access Newsgroups but I had not yet set this up. I know that Google allows you to view Usenet group via the web but I wanted to try newsgroups with Thunderbird.
After searching the support pages of my ISP [...]

Lists

For this task I have joined a Yahoo group called “The Amstrad CPC Club”, it is dedicated to the Amstrad CPC computer which was popular in the 1980s. The group only has 76 members and doesn’t seem to be very active. I think this group would be very suitable for an email list rather than [...]

Email Tasks

1. What information about a user’s email, the origin of a message, and the path it took, can you glean from an email message?
If you are using an email client, such as Outlook or Thunderbird you can find detailed information about an email by looking at the source. This usually isn’t possible if [...]