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Howard Kaufman <[log in to unmask]>
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For blind ham radio operators <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 30 Jun 2013 21:47:31 -0500
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It opened here in winamp.  If you right click the file and go to open with, 
you can either choose winamp or navigate to it and choose it.
You can do the same thing under fild and folder options in control panel, 
but the right click thing is faster and easier.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Canazzi" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2013 10:59 AM
Subject: Re: some of my favorite things.


> Hi Curtis,
>
> I can open the link and in fact I downloaded the file.  I have all the
> proper codecs installed but can't play the FLV file.
>
> On 6/30/2013 9:50 AM, Howard Kaufman wrote:
>> It was quite clear, it is a dropbox link.  For some reason, when I 
>> forwarded
>> the message to friends, they couldn't open the link, but I could.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Ronald E. Milliman" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2013 8:33 AM
>> Subject: Re: some of my favorite things.
>>
>>
>>> Just to give you a heads-up... by just giving us a URL or address to go 
>>> to
>>> without any more information to tell us what we are going to is not a 
>>> good
>>> idea. Many of us are extremely suspicious of such emails, thinking they
>>> could lead us to some virus or spyware or something dastardly. This is 
>>> not
>>> simply paranoia; it happens all of the time, and it is not any kind of
>>> accusation about Curtis or anyone. A very good friend of mine got
>>> something
>>> on his computer a few weeks ago that ended up taking over his computer,
>>> sending out messages to everyone in his address book and to every email
>>> address it found on his computer. He didn't know anything about it until
>>> several of us contacted him, asking him if he intentionally sent out
>>> messages with just an URL in them saying something like: "Check this 
>>> out:"
>>> followed by an URL. He reported back that he knew nothing about it; 
>>> though
>>> the message came from his computer. It turned out to be a piece of 
>>> spyware
>>> that also spread to everyone else's computer that clicked on and went to
>>> the URL in his message.
>>>
>>> Caution is the smartest course of action!
>>>
>>> Ron, K8HSY
>>>
>>>
>>> At 10:50 PM 6/29/2013 -0700, you wrote:
>>>> Hey guys, check this out, this is quite a neat thing my friend has
>>>> shown me. I put it in my public drop box.
>>>> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4910953/A%20Few%20of%20My%20Favorite%20
>>> Things%20About%20ARRL%20Field%20Day%202013.flv
>>> Dr. Ronald E. Milliman, retired Professor Western Kentucky University
>>> Ph: 270-782-9325
>>> Email: [log in to unmask]
>>>
>>> Chair, American Council of the Blind Public Relations Committee
>>>
>>> Chair, American Council of the Blind's Monthly Monetary Support Program
>>> (MMS) Committee
>>>
>>> President: South Central Kentucky Council of the Blind (SCKCB) 

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