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Novelist Paul Theroux wrote that "travel is glamorous only in retrospect." Certainly the planning of a trip can be a drudge, but there are online resources to ease your perambulatory angst.
Have reservations? Start at the ever-growing Yahoo! complex, where travel.yahoo.com/destinations will help you book a flight, rental car, or hotel room.
outtahere.wvs.com lets you make air, car, and hotel reservations. Here, you can also read travel articles, check weather, get driving directions and maps, and calculate currency conversion.
www.travelocity.com is a great place to find and reserve the lowest airfares around, including last-minute deals. In addition to the convenience of ticket-less travel, the site offers goodies like up-to-the-minute flight information sent right to your pager.
www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/mkant/Public/Travel/airfaire.html provides the Air Traveler's Handbook of frequently-asked-questions. The Usenet newsgroup, taps every subject from money-saving booking tips to safety and comfort.
www.amtrak.com is Amtrak's site that now offers online reservations with the option to also book hotels, cars, and so on. The recent promise of continued funding for the nation's railway means you can continue enjoying this mode of travel.
www.mapquest.com takes you to MapQuest, which provides both maps and driving directions. You can also get help planning your trip by checking the Mobil Travel Guide for hotels and restaurants, get a city's five-day weather forecast, and create a travel itinerary containing tailored information and maps.
www.fodors.com lets you read reviews of restaurants worldwide, find a hotel, participate in a forum with other travelers, and build your own personalized travel guide for major cities. If you're headed to one of 87 metropolitan areas, this personal trip planner is especially helpful.
www.lonelyplanet.com
takes a funkier angle on travel. The site offers tantalizing
snippets from the Lonely Planet guide books, a bulletin board
area, a section on health issues, a handy text-only viewing option,
and SubWWWay, a comprehensive categorized set of Web links complete
with site summaries. 
www.cdc.gov/travel/travel.html is theCenters for Disease Control and Prevention's Home Travel Information Page. It discusses health recommendations by geographic region as well as current disease outbreaks and vaccine recommendations.
www.geocities.com/Paris/1502 gives global access (billed as a network for disabled travelers) to tips, books, readers' travel experiences and a host of disability-related links.
Bon surfing! Whether you're journeying to a conference, field-trip site, sabbatical locale, or spring-break hideaway, these Web destinations let you reserve your stress for baggage claim.
Chances are if you tend to keep a lot of e-mail messages in your inbox, you've received a message from Godzilla, the Quota Server. What does it really mean, and what do you need to do about it?
Because there is a finite amount of storage space for e-mail, each user of the Information Technology Division's (ITD) basic e-mail service is allocated (or given a quota of) three megabytes of disk space in which to receive and store e-mail.
If you exceed your three-megabyte quota, you cannot receive any new e-mail, and you get a warning message from Godzilla. If you delete some mail and free up enough space in your mailbox within seven days of getting the message, you will receive any e-mail sent to you during the time you were "over quota."
If an individual message still can't be delivered after seven days, it is returned to the sender. If you remain over quota for 28 days, all your incoming e-mail after that point will be returned to the senders on receipt.
You can do three things to make sure your e-mail is delivered consistently:
Monitor your e-mail quota and stay under it.
Delete received and sent mail you no longer need.
Move important mail you wish to keep to another storage location, such as a hard drive, disk, or your Institutional File System (IFS) home directory.
You can check how much of your e-mail quota you are using. The easiest way is to connect to the ITD Login Service and type imapstatus at the % prompt. Another way is to send e-mail to quota@x.imap.itd.umich.edu (where x is the first letter of your uniqname). For example, if your uniqname were bjensen, you would send your quota request message to quota@b.imap.itd.umich.edu.
You will receive a reply from Godzilla listing your current usage (in kilobytes), the size of your quota (in kilobytes), and the percentage of the allocated space you are using.
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