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Friday, June 06, 2003
5 MONTHS AND COUNTING Monica was the lucky recipient of a free portrait on a recent trip to Babies R Us -- conveniently coinciding with her 5-month birthday! 
 
 MY WAR ON SPAM One of the great pains of owning one's own domain name is the outrageous amount of SPAM that routinely comes my way. In an effort to reduce the volume, I've had to take some extraordinary steps: 1. Filters. Once upon a time, I encouraged friends to e-mail me at any username at weinkopf.com. The messages all turned up in the same place, and it was fun to see how creative people could get. No longer. Some vile spammer once used the username "rehnuma" at this domain as a bogus return address for his message, and now that address appears to be in on the contact list of every spammer in North America. As a result, I've instructed my e-mail client to destroy on sight anything addressed to "rehnuma" -- ditto for "info." 2. This site. If you look at the top left corner of this page, you'll see the hyperlinked "Chris Weinkopf" is no longer there. In its place is a description of how someone can reach me at email(at)weinkopf.com--an address that exists purely for strangers to this site. Those messages will go to a special folder in my e-mail client, unless the spammers figure out how to get that one, too. 3. Our well-guarded top username. Any message not addressed to "email" or a top-secret username I dare not mention here (friends already know it; it's the one that plays off of our initials) -- will be sent to a "junk" folder in my e-mail client. I check the "junk" foler every once in a while before trashing the contents, just in case something legitimate has ended up there by mistake, but if you know the username of which I write and you want me to read your messages in a timely manner, use it! Sorry for the inconvenience. Blast those spammers! Wednesday, June 04, 2003
SUMMER OF SEQUELS This week's FrontPage column: Where O Where Have the WMDs Gone? Part Deux. Naturally, it's a follow up to an April column with a similar name. |