Iain/Kayak.ftp via explorer has worked for a while I always used to use it until I realized how slow and error prone it is, I use WS-FTP Pro now but its overkill for basic web pages just nicer to use.

Ive got Dreamweaver as well.Any Good?
I really dont know where to start to help my lad,He wants to start a Nirvana fan web site.He looking for me to get him started!!!!
Ive got the dsl web space via Pipex but get the error message "This user has not yet uploaded their index file.(index.htm,index.html or index.shtml) How do i do that?????
Confused of Bury ;-)

Iain, the error is because there are no web pages to show, by default browsers looks for index.htm or index.html when you enter a site address so for example when you enter www.flying.demon.co.uk it looks for the file index.htm and loads that.

Its just saying you need to load the pages into your web space (using ftp). ISPs have differing procedures for making the web space visible with some it will be visible immediately but that is not always the case.

I don't know anything about dreamweaver but you need to create basic html type pages and not fancy ones at the moment, if you go for more fancy pages later you will need to check what Pipex allow as some pages need server side stuff as well.

That's the limit of my web design expertise !!

meant to add index.htm will be created by front page or whatever you use to do your pages.

Cheers Tim

Iain: Create a file on your hard disk with Notepad, called index.htm and containing the text "Hello!". Open an Internet Explorer window to ftp://&ltyour Pipex username&gt@dslftp.dsl.pipex.com/ . You will need to give your password and you should get a blank page as no files have been uploaded. Next open a Windows Explorer window so that the index.htm file you have just created shows. Drag and drop the file into the IE window. After it uploads it it will show in the IE window and also at your website address.

Trying now Kayak

My Web site says "hello" now

Well done!

Oh I forgot to say there seems to be a bug in IE (at least on my machine) whereby you have to press refresh after typing the ftp address. The first time I get a page not found error.

Not sure how but somebody is sending spam emails from an AOL screen name of mine. It's been happening over the last few weeks.

anyone any ideas how to stop this?

Here is an example:

Subj: Important Message About Your Health pfew
Date: 22/10/2004 10:39:07 Romance Standard Time
From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: Venusfirefly2003
BCC: Venusfly30, Venus films, VenusFliGrl77, Venus Feet, VenusFliTrap0162, VenusFly666, Venusformal, Venusflytrap2000, VenusFlyCherryPi, Venusflytrap101, Venusforeros, Venusflytrap5, Venusfn, VenusFlyCatcher, VENUS FlyyTrap, Venusflytrap44, Venusisis5917436, Venusiris1, VenusisloveLv




Get Them Online
Vicodin, Xanax, and more to choose from....
u3fd5az67v5
Just visit:
www.noscript-rx.info

(copy and paste the link)

All i Have is "Hello" On my sons web site :-)
How do i construct it now??

Just a small problem or more of an irritation really. Whenever I type in a website address that begins with an "s" in the address bar a drop down box appears with sardinesplaice. I know this box is supposed to appear but I clear down my history files/cookies etc regularly and I haven't been to sp for months. Where is it being stored so I can just get rid of it? I bloody hate things that burrow in and sit somewhere they shouldn't - why wouldn't it just be in the normal history file like all other sites I visit?

Thanks
Rob

Mr Euro, not much you can do. They aren't actually sending from your account (well, you could change your password to make sure), they are just spoofing the sender address. I get it too.

Robb, Tools/Internet Options/Content tab/Autocomplete and press Clear Forms.

Hi Kayak, I think they are sending it from the account. They have sent over 100 mails each saying it is from me! This is confirmed if youlook in outbox and you see them their!

I'll change the password but I think it's a bit more than that, I have contacted AOL but wont hold my breath.

Hijacking of valid email addresses to bypass Spam checking of the "MAIL FROM" validation in MailServers is now very common. The spammers are being squeezed so are going to more extreme measures to get the junk through.

Unfortunately there is absolutely nothing you can do about it apart from completely bining the email address and never use it again.

They are not sending from your account at all. They are sending it from somewhere else using their own special software and just sticking your email address in because it is "valid".

BT, but if they are not sending from my account why/how does it appear in my outbox?

Do you sleepwalk Mr Euro? :-)

Mr Euro, if its in your outbox its probably been sent from there, as you suggest take it up with AOL but I doubt if they will do much. If its not in your inbox its spoofed, happens all the time, some ISPs will allow you to supress DSN messages which can be usefull if this is happeneing a lot, I donmt know if AOL let you do that but I doubt it as they are crap ;-)

Kayak, no I hardly sleep these days!

Spaceman, yes it is in my outbox not inbox, by inbox did you mean outbox?

Read this today, got me thinking! $24m for 9 years! Will be reduced to say 5 on appeal, of which he will serve 2.5. If I knew how I would give it a try!

US duo in first spam conviction


Jaynes sent more than 100,000 e-mails in a month
A brother and sister in the US have been convicted of sending hundreds of thousands of unsolicited e-mail messages to AOL subscribers.
It is the first criminal prosecution of internet spam distributors.

Jurors in Virginia recommended that the man, Jeremy Jaynes, serve nine years in prison and that his sister, Jessica DeGroot, be fined $7,500.

They were convicted under a state law that bars the sending of bulk e-mails using fake addresses.

'Snake oil salesman'

They will be formally sentenced next year. A third defendant, Richard Rutkowski, was acquitted.

Prosecutors said Jaynes was "a snake oil salesman in a new format", using the internet to peddle useless wares, news agency Associated Press reported.

A "Fed-Ex refund processor" was supposed to allow people to earn $75 an hour working from home. Another item on sale was an "internet history eraser".

His sister helped him process credit card payments.

Jaynes amassed a fortune of $24m from his sales, prosecutors said.

"He's been successful ripping people off all these years," AP quoted prosecutor Russell McGuire as saying.

Jaynes was also found guilty of breaking a state law which prohibits the sending of more than 100,000 e-mails in 30 days, Virginia State Attorney General Jerry Kilgore reportedly said.

Prosecutors had asked for 15 years in jail for Jaynes, and a jail term for his sister.

But Jaynes' lawyer David Oblon called the nine-year recommended term "outrageous" and said his client believed he was innocent.

He pointed out that all three of the accused lived in North Carolina and were unaware of the Virginia state law.

Spam messages are estimated to account for at least 60% of all e-mails sent.

Only other possibility is that your password has been cracked. I'm not an AOL person so don't know how you logon or whatever. If that is possible because you've used a "normal" word then try using passwords that include punctuation marks.

Apart from that I haven't a clue.