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Privacy
TBTF does not use cookies and does not collect any private or identifying
information anywhere on the site. For subscribers I maintain only a list
of their email addresses, and I do not and will not share this information
with any outside party.
Spam
1997-08-16
I dislike spam as much as you do, and I don't want to make it easy for the
spammers' address hoovering tools to collect victims' email addresses from
the TBTF home and archive. On the other hand, I want to make it possible
for members of the TBTF community privately to contact people mentioned in
the articles, should they want to. For these reasons I use a convention
of obfuscation when referencing the email addresses of correspondents,
informants, or participants in the stories that appear in this newsletter.
It works like this:
Email address as it appears in TBTF:
<doyle at cs dot und dot edu>
Actual email address:
<doyle@cs.und.edu>
In other words, before sending email to anyone mentioned in these pages,
replace each " at " with "@" and each " dot " with "." #151; simple enough?
PGP
Before distributing issues of TBTF by email I sign them using PGP for
Personal Privacy 5.5; here is my public key.
(Articles in the archive are not signed.)
Emendations
The archive is living, not static. Here is the policy and history of
emendations.
Tools
The archive was initially generated with the help of
hypermail 1.02. I maintain and develop the site using BBEdit 4.5.1a
and Photoshop on a Macintosh clone.
Trends
Follow this link for details of the trends
in TBTF's subscriber base, Web-site visitor traffic, and international
distribution.
The Lips
Here is an Ascii-art rendition of The Lips,
a stalwart of TBTF's email edition for its first 100 issues. The email
edition was redesigned beginning with
TBTF for 1997-02-11.
My signature
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Layer of ash separates morning and evening milk.
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Enough people asked me about my .sig that I put up
this page to tell the story.
Credits
The "Pucker" image 
is © Photodisc, Inc., 1996.
Partners
TBTF is an Amazon Associate. This means that I get credit if you buy
books at Amazon after following my link there. How much does this amount to?
So far it's about the price of one hardbound book per quarter.
If you review a book for TBTF, you get the credit — I'll buy you the
book(s) of your choice with any money flowing from your review.