From crispen@campus.mci.net Thu Aug 15 21:18:13 1996 Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 17:22:19 -0700 From: Patrick Douglas Crispen Reply-To: TOURBUS-Request@LISTSERV.AOL.COM To: TOURBUS@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Subject: TOURBUS -- 15 AUGUST 1996 -- MERCURY MAIL (PART TWO) /~~~~~~~~~|~~~~~~~~~~~~/~~~~~~~~|~~~~~~~~~~|~~~~~~~~~~~/~~~|~\ | "Why | Surf When / You Can | Ride The | Bus?" / | \ |__________|__________/__________|__________|_________/ | \ / /______|----\ / Take the MYST Trivia Challenge at WorldVillage and |//////| | | win one of 50 great prizes from Broderbund! For |//////| | | details, see http://www.worldvillage.com/myst.htm |//////| | | |//////| | ~~~/~~~\~~/~~~\~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/~~~\~~~~ \___/ \___/ T h e I n t e r n e t T o u r B u s \___/ TODAY'S TOURBUS STOP : MERCURY MAIL (PART TWO) TODAY'S TOURBUS ADDRESSES : http://www.worldvillage.com/tourbus.htm http://www.ua.edu/~crispen/word.html news@merc.com weather@merc.com stocks@merc.com sports@merc.com entertainment@merc.com nfl@merc.com Hi, kids! Last week I told you that you can find all of the previous TOURBUS posts at http://www.worldvillage.com/tourbus.htm/ Well, it looks like your fearless bus driver went a little "slash happy" and added an unnecessary "/" at the end of that URL. The *correct* address for the TOURBUS archives is http://www.worldvillage.com/tourbus.htm (notice that there is no "/" at the end of the URL). Sorry about that. To make up for my little slash incident, I am happy to announce that I have updated the Southern Word homepage at http://www.ua.edu/~crispen/word.html This page contains every Southern Word that has appeared in my TOURBUS posts over the past year, and is required reading if you ever want to be able to converse with a "suddener." :) Of course, if you want to be a TRUE Southerner, you'll have to know how to make gourmet grits ... *---------------------* Be A CyberGourmand! *-----------------------* Twin Peaks Gourmet Trading Post - a Cornucopia of Pleasurable Edibles. Sauces, Spices, Salsas, and Sweets. Indulge your Desires. *-----------------------( http://tpeaks.com )------------------------* Last week we pulled our little bus of Internet happiness into Mercury Mail, a *free*, advertiser-supported service (sort of like TOURBUS) that delivers only the news and information that you want, when you want it. You may remember that I wrote that [Y]ou have to have a forms-capable Web browser to be able to "configure" Mercury Mail to send you what you want, when you want it. (Actually, I think you can do this through e-mail too, but I could not find any directions on their web page ... I'll keep looking, though.). Well, I am happy to announce that I have found a way that you can subscribe to, and configure, all of Mercury Mail's services using nothing but e-mail! Am I a great guy or what?! As a review, Mercury Mail offers 8 services: News; Weather; Snow; Stocks; Sports; Entertainment; Reminders; and Calendars. All of the services, with the exception of "Calendars," are absolutely free. Mercury Mail is able to fund these "free" services by placing small ads in the e-mail letters that they send you (sort of like what Bob and I do to be able to pay for TOURBUS). Let's take a look at how to subscribe to Mercury Mail's free news service, NEWSpot. NEWSpot offers briefs of headline news in 14 categories with web links to the full story. To subscribe to NEWSpot, just send an e-mail letter to NEWS@MERC.COM All of Mercury Mail's subscription addresses will "autorespond" to your letters, so it does not matter what you put in the subject line or the body of your letters. Shortly after you send off your letter to NEWS@MERC.COM, you will receive a letter that looks something like this: Welcome to NEWSpot, a new free service from Mercury Mail! NEWSpot delivers a daily e-mail summary of news topics, including U.S. news, international news, and special events. ... %< snip snip snip ... %< By replying to this message, we can get you set-up with NEWSpot today! Place an X between the brackets if you want that feature enabled. General News [ ] U.S. [ ] International [ ] Science & Medicine [ ] Technology ... %< snip snip snip %< All you need to do to subscribe to NEWSpot is reply to the e-mail letter from NEWSpot and put an X between the brackets next to any and all of the particular features that you are interested in! Simple, huh? Here's some information on how to subscribe to *ALL* of Mercury Mail's services via e-mail. NEWSpot ------- NEWSpot offers briefs of headline news in 14 categories with web links to the full story. To subscribe to NEWSpot, send an e- mail letter to NEWS@MERC.COM WeatherVane ----------- WeatherVane brings The Weather Channel to the desktop, offering customized coverage of weather in your choice of cities and regions. To subscribe to WeatherVane, send an e-mail letter to WEATHER@MERC.COM SnowBytes --------- SnowBytes provides snow conditions and mountain reports on a subscriber's selected resorts. SnowBytes also includes events and happenings in those locations. Since it is 100 degrees in the shade right now, SnowBytes has taken a little vacation ... but SnowBytes will start up again in September (Mercury Mail will send you a notice through their other services telling you how to subscribe to SnowBytes). CLOSING BELL ------------- CLOSING BELL offers the daily closing prices and related news on the stock/companies that you are following. CLOSING BELL includes several options such as morning news, inter-day news alerts, mid-day stock reports and weekend reports. To subscribe to CLOSING BELL, send an e-mail letter to STOCKS@MERC.COM Sports Wrap ----------- Sports Wrap delivers personalized coverage of the Olympics, baseball, basketball, golf, tennis, hockey and other sports as they come into season. To subscribe to Sports Wrap, send an e- mail letter to SPORTS@MERC.COM SpotLite -------- SpotLite personalizes the latest information on movies, rentals, theater, television, music releases, horoscope, lottery, gossip, etc. To subscribe to SpotLite, send an e-mail letter to ENTERTAINMENT@MERC.COM The reminders service (ConsoliDate) is only accessible through the Mercury Mail homepage at http://www.merc.com/ and the calendar service (Quotes & Anecdotes) actually costs money (because of licensing agreements) so I'm just going to detour our bus around that service. Also, for those of you who are big NFL (National Football League) fans, you might want to check out Mercury Mail's NFL service at NFL@MERC.COM That's it for this week. Have a safe weekend ... and watch out for them squirrels! --------------------------------- TODAY'S SOUTHERN WORDS OF THE DAY --------------------------------- THUD - adjective. What comes after second. Usage: "My dad just graduated thud grade." (Special thanks goes to Dan Bragg for today's wurd) YOU CAN FIND ALL OF THE OLD SOUTHERN WORDS OF THE DAY ON THE SOUTHERN WORD HOMEPAGE AT http://www.ua.edu/~crispen/word.html *-----------------* WORK FROM HOME - ON-LINE! *--------------------* No sign-up fee, inventory or previous experience! Put our website to work for you! Start your own business by trying our products, 30-days risk free! Bonus: Enjoy the products & results! 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