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I have learned most of the advice below, but not all. It is important info. Worth a read, I think. If you know it all, good for you. If not, you will become a bit more enlightened, to protect yourself and your computer. A friend who is a computer expert received the following directly from a system administrator for a corporate system. It is an excellent message that ABSOLUTELY applies to ALL of us who send e-mails. Please read the short letter below, even if you're sure you already follow proper procedures. Do you really know how to forward e-mails? 50% of us do; 50% DO NOT. Do you wonder why you get viruses or junk mail? Do you hate it? Every time you forward an e-mail there is information left over from the people who got the message before you, namely their e-mail addresses and names. As the messages get forwarded along, the list of addresses builds, and builds, and builds, and all it takes is for some poor sap to get a virus, and his or her computer can send that virus to every E-mail address that has come across his computer. Or, someone can take all of those addresses and sell them or send junk mail to them in the hopes that you will go to the site and he will make five cents for each hit. That's right, all of that inconvenience over a nickel! How do you stop it? Well, there are several easy steps. Try the following if you haven't done it before: (1) When you forward an e-mail, DELETE all of the other addresses that appear in the body of the message (at the top). That's right, DELETE them. Highlight them and delete them, backspace them, cut them, whatever it is you know how to do. It only takes a second. You MUST click the 'Forward' button first and then you will have full editing capabilities against the body and headers of the message. If you don't click on 'Forward' first, you won't be able to edit the message at all. (2) Whenever you send an e-mail to more than one person, do NOT use the To: or Cc: fields for adding e-mail addresses. Always use the BCC: (blind carbon copy) field for listing the e-mail addresses. This is the way the people you send to will only see their own e-mail address. If you don't see your BCC: option click on where it says To: and your address list will appear. Highlight the address and choose BCC: and that's it, it's that easy. When y ou send to BCC: your message will automatically say 'Undisclosed Recipients in the 'TO:' field of the people who receive it. (3) Remove any 'FW :' in the subject line. You can re-name the subject if you wish or even fix spelling. (4) ALWAYS hit your Forward button from the actual e-mail you are reading . Ever get those e-mails that you have to open 10 pages to read the one page with the information on it? By Forwarding from the actual page you wish someone to view, you stop them from having to open many e-mails just to see what you sent. (5) Have you ever gotten an email that is a petition? It states a position and asks you to add your name and address and to forward it to 10 or 15 people or your entire address book. The email can be forwarded on and on and can collect thousands of names and email addresses. A FACT: The completed petition is actually worth a couple of bucks to a professional spammer because of the wealth of valid names and email addresses contained therein. DO NOT put your email address of any petition. If you want to support the petition, send it as your own personal letter to the intended recipient. Your position may carry more weight as a personal letter than a laundry list of names and email address on a petition. (And don't believe the ones that say that the email is being traced, it just ain't so!) Some of the other emails to delete and not forward are: 1. The one that says something like, 'Send this email to 10 people and you'll see something great run across your screen.' Or sometimes they'll just tease you by saying 'something really cute will happen.' IT AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN!!!!! (We are still seeing some of the same emails that we waited on 10 years ago!) 2. I don't let the bad luck ones scare me either, they get trashed. 3. Before you forward an 'Amber Alert' , or a 'Virus Alert' , or some of the other emails floating around nowadays, check them out before you forward them. Most of them are junk mail that's been circling the net for YEARS! Just about everything you receive in an email that is in question can be checked out at http://www.snopes.com/ or Just go to www.truthorfiction.com It's really easy to find out if it's real or not. If it's not, please don't pass it on. So please, in the future, let's stop the junk mail and the viruses. Finally, here's an idea!!! Let's send this to everyone we know ( but strip my address off first, please). This is something that SHOULD be forwarded, so do it. Thanks for reading and helping the spammers starve!

Last words from his colsultant no pigeons and no drink :'( :'( :'(

I will do

I will do, he can read all the posts after tomorrow as he is coming to stay with us till he gets a new house as there is no way he can cope with the stairs in his present house, he is number two on the rehousing list

Good news, Billy is getting out of hospital tomorrow, although he has a long way to go he is doing well

Only once the young are old enough to be left in the nest by themselves, both will hunt to feed them and then both will train them so you can get a group of five shortly once the young have fledged:(

Download a free programme called photobucket, it is a great tool for posting pics and you can store them in in your album in various sizes

No another one that likes the whites :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( Depends what you want, fantails, rollers, racers or fancy, do they have to be pure white

What size of file is it?

Do you have a link for the site please

Very good, do you have any more pics of them, so I can get a better idea what to make, how much birds will this size house

Happy birthday to you all

Thanks for that, I only just got the rollers this year, we have 14 whites/gay pieds, out of that we got 6 pairs, they are just on open loft just now from a small section in one of our lofts, I plan to build a seperate loft or kit box for them, any advice would be appreciated Duncan

This guy was selling them for £25 each http://forum.pigeonbasics.com/m-1212486631/s-5/highlight-sputnik/#num5

;D ;D ;D

When we used to collect birds eggs as a boy, we would float the eggs to see if the were liquid to see if they could be blown, if they floated they were liquid if they sunk they were solid, also fresh eggs have a small air sack inside them which helps them float, never done it to pigeon eggs always held them up to the light

Welcome to the site Glen

Chickadee feeds them on a mix of foods, they are out every day just now, building a seperate kit box down beside the workshop as Chickadee thends to over feed them :-/

Not in the least, I would have no hesitation in dealing with anything that done this, the best thing is to find another place; if at all possible in some areas to release the birds, I know we can't all own eagle owls to stop this happening but at big releases one could be flown before liberations to deter the falcons, then you have the problem with the falcons on route home for the birds, not easy in the fact that these are being over protected to the point we are over populated with them, the falcon is just behaving natural it is the powers at be that are creating the unbalance of nature

I would like to add Vallance Lofts, true to his word and a cracking bird as well:)

They do only hunt to feed, if they over feed they become too heavy to hunt, problem is this time of the year they are rearing young and the kill gets taken back to the nest, the worst time is when the young fledge they will be out training them to hunt and when inexperienced young make quite a few attempts to kill

Welcome to the site, where are you from

Welcome to the site Donna, just post the pics and I am sure someone will know what they are