Dear All, I was checking my Gmail and came across the term 'Phishing' in the mail option. Gmail is a very good mail service and is still in beta and one of the best available today. Gmail is good for lot many reasons like search facility for mails that you receive, labeling the mails for organizing, and of course Phishing. It is important for any LIS professionals to be with the latest technology. Phishing: Phishing is a form of fraud in which a message sender pretends to be a representative of a legitimate organization in an attempt to trick the recipient into divulging important personal information like a password or bank account number. If you believe the message that you got is a phishing attack, you can report it to the Gmail abuse team and help thwart the attack and others like it. Reporting this message as an attack will send the entire message to Gmail the team for review. To learn more just open Gmail that you have received and in the 'Show options' link you can find out more about this (check out wiht friends if you do not have a gmail id). Many of you would remember the mails that you would have forwarded to others thinking that the forward would fetch help to someone in trouble or promising a prize like a mobile phone etc. and the sender would have requested a copy to the original sender. This is nothing but drama to fetch the new email ids' and to send unsolicited or spam mails to the available mail Ids'. Pls remember not to send any such forwards as all the recepients would get so many spams. Try getting Gmail from your friends and start using it immediately as it requires invitation. I can help some of you as I have a few invitations. Wirh regards from, Sahini R Sahana MIM IV Sem, DOS in LIS, Manasa Gangothri, Univ. of Mysore, Mysore -- Wit Luv & Care Urs Ravi