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<td valign="top"><a href="http://start.earthlink.net/track?id=1023946&url=http://www.earthlink.net/elink/issue32/focus.html"><img src="http://w.eimg.net/elink/img/art/v32/i_sm_infocus_32_netexpert.gif" width="56" height="53" border="0" align="left"></a><font color="#000066" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>How
to Be a Net Expert</b></font><br> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"><b>Email,
surfing, and FTP tips</b><br>
Spending time online is a skill like any other—the more you
do it, the better you get. At EarthLink, we're Internet experts,
so this issue we want to share some of our tricks, like:
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<li> Writing effective email subject lines</li>
<li> Sending files that are too big to go via email</li>
<li> Reading Web addresses (URLs) to see where they really
go</li>
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And more! Check out our easy tips that will save you time and
make your Internet experience even better.<br>
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them from the parts of the Internet they're not ready to
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Whether it's cookies, tracking data secretly built into your
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that's still buried in your browser, your PC might be secretly
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Try trading real-time messages with <A href="http://start.earthlink.net/track?id=1023954&url=http://support.earthlink.net/chat">EarthLink
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