April 12th 1999

1. Show that you care!
2. Not Every Day is a Holiday
3. Spotlight: MichaelAngel's Card Shop
4. By Popular Demand: Butterflies, Lighthouses, Barbie
5. Card Toon of the Week
6. Featured Arts: Miss Bliss' Fantasy
7. More info about viruses and Y2K

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1. Show that you care!

No matter how you feel about the Kosovo Crisis, if you want to send a quick card to the parents of the three US soldiers held captives in Yugoslavia click on the picture of the soldiers at http://hicards.com

2. Not Every Day is a Holiday

Sad but true. Many of you asked for non-holiday themed cards which can be used on rainy days, bad mood and such special days as April 15th (if you don't care about this date - you don't live is the USA).

Sidero Postcard Jubilee has cards even for this occasion Sidero's Tax Time Cards

Bad Boss, Hate My Job, Life's Unfair, Sucky Day and lots more like this - animated, original and witty at Susan's Cheesy Cards

3. Spotlight: MichaelAngel's Card Shop

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How about some scenes from my absolute favorite place in the whole world - the ocean... having spent many hours watching the ocean in all kinds of weather, I'd appreciate "ocean-scapes"! ** AKEMA@Integris-Health.com

Mary, I hope you will like this: Ocean Scenes at MichaelAngel's Card Shop

And be sure to check the whole beautiful site - one of the oldest members of My Postcards Network. Absolute Heaven for the Hopeless or Hopeful Romantic with almost 1000 cards, original poems and one of the largest collections of angel images on the Internet.

MichaelAngel's Card Shop

4. By Popular Demand: Butterflies, Lighthouses, Barbie

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have any postcards with... butterflies... lighthouses ** m_fitton@hotmail.com

Melissa, check these:

Butterflies at Angelwinks Heavenly Postcard Shoppe

Lighthouses at Angelwinks Heavenly Postcard Shoppe

Please note that many new features had been added to this site recently so even if you were there before - come on in!

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Do you have the Barbie Cards Website? ** carychan@hkstar.com

Cary, this new site may be what you are looking for: The Newsflash Postcard Site

Barbie dolls, kittens, puppies with fun captions like "We have such fun together! Thanks for being my best buddy!"

5. Card Toon of the Week

Fun, original, colorful animated postcards for cat lovers. This site has grown into a big cardshop! Many new original animations. Romance, Birthday, Get Well, Thanks, Bon Voyage, Congrats, Humor, Current Holidays, and all-purpose cards. Cards can be sent as custom ICQ greetings.

Action Cat Postcards

Here I am stepping into a risky ground. Cute smiling bear Bamse loves honey, flowers and skis - that's all I can write because I don't know a word in Swedish. Okay, I suspect "Vykort" is Swedish for "postcard" but who knows... I hope anyone here knows about those really superb cartoons and can tell us something interesting about it.

Bamse Vykort - Swedish Cartoons

6. Featured Arts: Miss Bliss' Fantasy

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I have a friend of mine that likes fantasy pics and those kind of e-cards. Any related sites? ** Xangpao@aol.com

Here is a new one, featuring original fantasy pictures of Brian LaCount, Meilin Wong and Ryan R Ellis.

Miss Bliss' Postcards

And you can check more sites with Fantasy Cards at "My Postcards Network"

7. More info about viruses and Y2K

We've got lots of feedback re: this subject in MP News #31. It appears that for many of you topic of Net viruses is new and you want to know more about this issue.

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It really ticks me off that this is happening. I'm not that familiar with computer lingo but I do know this "virus" makes me question everything (no offense meant) even e-mail e-card sites. What makes your site immune to a "virus"? ** bluesky@muskoka.com

To make it short - "My Postcards Network" does not run on Windows. All those common and scary viruses like Melissa and Daddy can not affect our UNIX servers. UNIX OS in general and our software in particular are fully year 2000 compliant as well (it's simply not an issue here).

Card notification mails (plain text) and postcard pages (HTML) are produced on our servers. Those formats (*.txt and *.html) are not subjected to any computer and network viruses.

OUR postcards are safer than your coffee-pot! Garanteed!

A note from Helmut:

Be extremely cautious about any mail that has attachements. If you receive mail that takes a long time to download, or if you spot an attachement that is an *.exe type file, then you better immediately shut down all running programs and run your Virus checker. *.exe files themselves are harmless, however they are the CARRIER of viruses.

Just like not every gun is loaded, not all *.exe files sent to you carry a virus. If you have friends who send you mail with attachements instead of proper postcards, then you better have a boot disk with a good virus cleaner handy.

You can download Mcafee's Free Trial Virus protection software from http://www.mcafee.com/