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Memo Service Help: What Is It? | Sending | Receiving
The World's Memo Service:
Receiving Memos
To receive memos, you must be a customer of The World (www.TheWorld.com). (Want to sign up? Join The World for as low as $9.89 a month.) You don't have to be a World customer to send memos, only to receive memos.
Nobody can send you memos until you either create a contact ID for a sender, or enable anonymous memos.
1. Go to memo.TheWorld.com.
2. Click "Administer Your Account".
3. A form will ask for your World ID (the name of your account) and your World system password. Fill those in, choose "Contacts" (from the list of items to edit), and click "Edit".
4. The next page will be the list of contacts you've added (it will say "No contacts added yet.") Click "Add A Contact".
5. On the form, type a contact ID and the password for that contact ID. (Contact IDs can be any piece of text, but usually they are something short and easy to remember, like "John" or "customers".) If you wish, you can also fill in other information (such as their E-mail address, notes to yourself, and a special greeting that will be shown to them while they are writing you a memo.) Click "Save" and the contact will be added.
6. Don't forget to tell the person (or people) that you created this contact ID for them. To send you a memo, they will need to know "memo.TheWorld.com", your World ID, their memo contact ID, and the password for that ID.
You can create up to 25 contact IDs. To edit an existing contact ID, click the contact ID's name in the list of contacts.
To delete a contact, click its name to edit it, then change the "Status" option to "Deleted", and click "Save". That contact ID will be marked as "Deleted", and clicking "Purge Deleted Contacts" will remove it entirely. If you just want to turn a contact ID off temporarily, click the contact ID to edit it, and set "Status" to "Disabled".
In addition to giving contact IDs to people, another option is to allow people to send you memos anonymously. (If you permit anonymous memos, anyone can send you a memo, but they can't attach a file to it.)
1. Go to memo.TheWorld.com.
2. Click "Administer Your Account".
3. A form will ask for your World ID (the name of your account) and your World system password. Fill those in, choose "Global Settings" (from the list of items to edit), and click "Edit".
4. On the next page, the memo-related settings for your World ID will be displayed. Check or uncheck the "Enable Anonymous" check-box to turn anonymous memos on or off.
Other options on the settings screen are the default greeting (which is displayed to anyone who is writing a memo to you, unless you have defined a greeting for their specific contact ID) and the folder for storing memos. If you leave the folder name blank, memos will be delivered to your World account's normal mailbox. Specifying a folder name will make the memos go into that folder (separate from your E-mail.) See below for specific instructions for enabling this memo folder within The World's WebMail.
To read memos you've received, you can use any E-mail program. Most E-mail programs support IMAP, which lets you choose to access a specific folder. The World's WebMail supports this, as do Outlook Express, Mozilla, Eudora, and other programs.
Memos you receive will be marked with "[MEMO]" in the subject line. (Only memos sent through this The World's Memo Service will say "[MEMO]".)
To create a separate folder for your memos in World's WebMail:
1. Login to WebMail (click WebMail button on http://www.TheWorld.com.)
2. Click on Folders near the top of the WebMail page to go to the Folders settings page.
3. Look at the Unsubscribe/Subscribe area. If the folder you want appears in the Subscribe box then click the folder name and click on Subscribe.
4. If the folder does not appear in the Subscribe area then enter the name you want for the folder in the Create Folder text box and click Create.
5. Click refresh folder list near the top of the Folders settings page to add the new folder to the Folders list at the left. Click a folder to go to that message list.
See the instructions above to set the folder name for memos.
Memo Service Help: What Is It? | Sending | Receiving
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