Inbox

By DON McALLISTER

Welcome to InBox, where we attempt to answer your internet questions.

We all do it at times - use a spouse's or child's name, a birthday or even a phone number for passwords. Several of our readers have found just how easily these can be cracked and how much damage can be done when that happens.

When creating any type of personal internet account, always scramble a combination of eight or more upper and lower case letters and numbers for the password.

David has swags of mail saved in his Hotmail account and he'd like to store them in his computer's hard drive.

Outlook Express is faster and stores the data on your drive, Dave. Click here for a set of pages tells you how.

Russell tried streaming NewstalkZB from on his Windows95 machine, but it failed to work.

You need Windows Media Player Version 6.4, or better, to hear it, Russell. It comes within Internet Explorer and, as Microsoft has removed support for Windows 95, the latest version available for you is Internet Explorer 5.5 - available at Explorer downloads.

Denis's forwarded emails have rows of ">>" beside each line. It looks messy and causes the whole email to become disjointed.

Email programs do this to show the recipient that the sender is not the original source, Denis. If you see one arrow, the sender didn't write it, two arrows means twice forwarded, etc. To forward emails without the'>" , kill the tick in Outlook Express/Tools/Options/Send - Select: Plain Text Settings and remove the "indent the original text with" tick.

Chris remembers a previous Inbox that told how to hide recipients' addresses from the receiver (ideal when sending to more than one person) but he can't remember how.

It's easy, Chris. Start a new mail, click "CC" (carbon copy) to bring up the "Select Recipients" box, Highlight the address you want to add and click BCC (blind carbon copy). Do this for each recipient and the addresses will all be hidden when you send it.

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