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To: LindyBill who wrote (2762)	6/27/2003 11:43:21 AM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 793955

I am going to have to come up with a better system for organizing bookmarks. I check so many sites that it is overwhelming me. Same problem here. I now have two unsatisfactory systems. I used FrontPage to create a home page for IE. Then made a table using FrontPage, with categories. It works but as the lists grow, they grow unevenly. One column of news gets very long; another column on investment sites, not quite as long, etc. Then I start just putting link in anywhere and I'm lost. The other is simply to use the Favorites bar in IE. They are not on the toolbar but I can keep the Favorites window open if I wish. Looks like the Google toolbar is working to block popup windows. None since I installed it and its says it has blocked 4.

To: LindyBill who wrote (2762)	6/27/2003 1:42:06 PM
From: Elsewhere	Respond to of 793955

I am going to have to come up with a better system for organizing bookmarks. I have started to compile a list of foreign affairs links some time ago. FL once announced it at FADG in #reply-18658924 He did me the favor of announcing it anonymously because I was afraid of being overwhelmed by mail but there are hardly any visitors and I haven't received a single email so far. If any of your favorite links are missing I would add them. I myself frequently use the page as a launching pad for sites which aren't contained in my toolbar. I manage another personal bookmark list as an HTML file which has about 5000 entries. Before that I had a separate bookmark utility but it became useless when I switched from Windows to Linux. I then decided to use a format which is independent of both OS and location. A HTML file does just that. I can use it on any OS and even independently of my computer: occasionally I send the updated file to a Web mail account and save it there. Whenever I am on the road I can log on and use my bookmarks stored in HTML in my mail folder. I code HTML directly in a text editor but for people not so interested in tech any modern word processor will do. MS Word, for instance, is able to export text files containing links as HTML. As a replacement for Netscape Navigator I can heartily recommend Mozilla. Actually the last Netscape browser will be based on Mozilla code and Mozilla will be continued as an open source project - though it will probably be unbundled into a browser and a mail/contact component. It is free and available for Windows, Mac and Linux. Here the link for the latest stable release: mozilla.org I have been using it for more than a year. One of the most useful features is the suppression of popup windows. Also emails are much less prone to virus attacks than with MS Outlook {Express}.