Hacker Threat..

[NancyJ]

Out of interest neb, what is your daughter's url? Her personal info could be derived from the dns record.

[nebgranny]

Thank you all for the response to this situiation. There are so many options here for her to chose from. She is a smart girl and certainly will do all she can to prevent this from getting worse.
Gary , when one compresses e-mails do you lose good e-mails ? I have never heard of doing this. What does this action do?

Again thanks everyone!! Neb

[RokcetScientist]

Originally Posted by NancyJ

We have similar expressions: 'his bark is worse than his bite' - and 'all mouth and no trousers', which I guess to a non-native english speaker, that makes no sense at all

You guessed right.
You also imply it does make sense to a native one...
Sense?

[Gary Richardson]

Hi Neb,

No you don't lose good e-mails.

When you delete an e-mail, the server just changes a piece of data in the header for the file, it does not remove it from the server. Think of it like deleting a file, it goes to the recycle bin and can be retrieved.

By compacting the folders, it looks for messages with the altered header data and removes them permanently from the e-mail server, a bit like when you empty your recycle bin.

Its a good thing to do this periodically anyway, as it prevents a build up of the size of your e-mail file on the server.

[BobJones]

Originally Posted by NancyJ

'all mouth and no trousers'

Makes more sense than many other expressions. It's a bit of sexual innuendo -- one who is boastful about things which he is incapable of performing (think "empty" trousers i.e. 'no bulge').

I've only heard my UK friends use this expression.

[chrishoggy]

Sounds like another fool shooting his mouth off to me Neb. Those that have the ability tend to keep quiet. Those that talk about what they will do, are just blowing hot air. I had a guy off one of the tech forums I'm on, and he made lots of threats about what he was going to do. He thought nobody knew who he was, and that he could do and say what he wanted. But once I had tracked him down and Emailed him a "Cease and Desist" warning, giving his full name and address, he soon shut up .

Threats are like water off a ducks back to me, and I find most of them quite amusing. When they do go too far, a "Cease and Desist" warning usually puts a stop to it.
Might be something she could consider doing .