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Contacting TK Boyd / Sheepdog Software ®
For those who don't mind online forms based responding, I can offer...
Click here for feedback form. The format is provided by my ISP, I do not require your eddress; feel free to enter "no@thanks.com". Apologies for the implied demand. Of course, I need some way to contact you if you want a response!
I'm usually glad to hear from readers. My eddress is:
I'm afraid that's a graphic and that you'll need to copy it by hand.... I'm removing machine readable copies of my eddress from my webpages in an attempt to reduce the spam I get.
Also, at 15 Sept 04, Compuserve seems to be losing emails sent to me. Part of this may be due to efforts at their end to reduce spam, but what is lost is erratic, and includes emails from sensible people with AOL accounts (Compuserve and AOL are both part of the same company). If I get your email, I will usually send at least a "Got It" within 36 hours. Don't hesitate to "pester" me by resending things.
... BUT: I'm most pleased to hear from people who send plain text emails, without attachments. In fact, I usually delete attachments unread, and ignore messages sent in html form. There's a fax number below, if you want to send me some diagram.
If you use Outlook Express: First: My sympathies. Try Eudora or Pegasus! Secondly: If you put me in your address book, please tick the "plain text only" box which (in some versions of OE) appears at the lower left of my page in the address book.
I also usually refrain from downloading things with odd characters in the subject line, e.g. "?Big5?B?qETCvrvdqEQyMLhVpEikfrj...". Beware: You may be sending such emails without realising it. The subject might look fine on your machine, but appear as shown on mine. I think it arises from a legitimate mechanism to get around the various character sets needed around the world, but my email client can't handle the protocol.
I also usually refrain from downloading things with return addresses that look like spam engines.
I'm most likely to look at something with a subject that appears to have been composed by a human, and isn't a classic spam subject, e.g. not "Tk, you really want to read this...". Making intelligent reference to something in the page you are responding to gives you an edge.
If you want to send one email to several people, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE do not use "cc:", but, rather, use "bcc:" It works like "cc:", except it often hides the list of who else has seen the email from each recipient. A small town professional, let's call him a tax advisor, once sent "a friend" a "I want more work from you" email after he'd stopped using the advisor because his work was unsatisfactory. He used "cc:". And the email came with a virus. The advisor didn't even thank my friend for being alerted to the problem. My friend felt a strong temptation to send an email to all the other people the advisor had pestered. If he'd used "bcc:", it would have been no more work for him, and he would not have supplied my friend with the eddresses of all those other people. (If you are using Pegasus, read the material in the help file on "bcc")
Want a link to your page from my page? I'm more likely to add one to a page on my site if you've already done a link to my site from yours.
I can be reached the old fashioned way as follows:
TK Boyd
PO Box 367
Essex, CT
06426 USA
(Do not put me on mailing lists, please!)
I can be reached via this US fax number: 1-413-826-7829
That, by the way, is a free service from www.efax.com. Signing up for it was simple and the questions reasonable. I receive a modest number of advertisements. You can "send a fax", as if I had a "real" fax machine on a dedicated phone line, but I don't... I receive what you sent as an email! I've had it for a few years now, entirely happy with it. Recommended.
Worried I'm not who I say I am? You should be... the net makes life too easy for the dishonest. Do you know about the Way Back Machine at www.archive.org? Besides being cool, it will show you that I've been around since at least December 1998. Just look up...
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/TK_Boyd/homepage.htm
... and you'll find my eddress 100665... there, at the bottom. Or, you can check TKBoydChi's profile at eBay.. that's me, too. Go to Google's newsgroup archives... you'll find many posts from me, especially years ago... and you won't find the complaints that arise about scam artists. If I can reassure you some other way, let me know?
If you use an MS-DOS or Windows pc, please visit my freeware and shareware page, download something, and circulate it for me?
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to visit editor's freeware, shareware page.
Link to editor's (Arunet) homepage
See graphic near start of page for my eddress (email address).