MARKSWATSON.COM
A Note on Email To The Site
Because of the enormous amount of spam and hate
mail I have received in the past, I simply cannot pass along my
e-mail, as much as I would like to. But look below, if I am
accepting mail, the instructions will be on this page. I ask
that you try and understand this and not be angry with me. I
know many people who run sites and blogs do post their e-mail
addresses but most of them have a staff or do not have a lot of
traffic. I have no staff and a fair amount of traffic.
I find after over 20 years of this, I get undesirable and
unpleasant mail in spurts and then many months of sane mail. For
the time being, I am not accepting new members for
private content. In the past I have had too many threats,
break-ins, physical surveillance and other harassment to make
this a large site. So until further notice, there will be no new
members as I endeavor to keep the site small and not have my
work abused as it has been in the past.
Thank you for understanding.
I have made my email address something that an actual human must
read and calculate to make it harder for spammers and scammers,
not to make it hard to contact me for regular and normal email.
It's a bit of a pain but here is how to contact me -
follow closely. You will need to use the phonetic alphabet
(military) and basic math.
- The First letter is 'Whiskey'
- the second letter is 'Whiskey'
- then add 3 and two for the next digit
- subtract six minus three minus three for the following digit
- add one and four
- then add a simple dash (like the one used as bullets in this
list)
- then 'Mike'
- 'Alpha'
- 'India'
- 'Lima'
at markswatson.com
The final email address should have ten
characters before the 'at' sign and the actual numbers should
add up to 10.
I do this to make sure that 1) you are really a
human and 2) you want to talk to be bad enough to take a couple
of minutes to get the email address (spam and hate mail
reduction).
Additionally, while I will likely read your email, I may choose
not to respond. Please do not be offended.
PLEASE DO NOT SEND ATTACHMENTS in your
correspondence. Emails with attachments will be deleted without
being read.
Finally, many old pages are gone. I may restore some of them
them when I get some time and reorganize things. We will see.
Please do not request old missing pages in your emails.
Regards,
Mark Watson
www.markswatson.com