E-Mail

Here's how to contact me:

My primary account		Yup, I have a domain name -- and, God willing, my "last" new e-mail address ever. Woo-hoo!
My secondary account		This account will stay around for a while, at least as long as I use Earthlink for dial-up purposes. Use this one if you have problems with the hill-kleerup.org address. (And, no, there aren't 46 others of us out there. But there was at least one other when I signed up. So I might as well use 47, something all you Pomona College grads should appreciate.)

Why this page?
or
"Hey, Dave, haven't you ever heard of a mailto: statement?"

There's just one problem with e-mail. (Well, there's more than one, but you know what I mean.) People end up moving their ISP accounts a lot more frequently than they move their (snail-)mailing addresses. And rare is the ISP that will forward such stuff (at least for free).

I rediscovered this problem in November 1998, when Margie and I moved from E-Central to Earthlink. (And for those who might be wondering, E-Central is a great local ISP. I just needed something with a global, or at least national, presence, so that I could keep up with my e-mail while out of town.) I spent most of a month resubscribing to the various places that had my old account. And then I had to update my web page ...

And that damned e-mail address was everywhere. Lots of reasons for that, but bottom line, it was annoying. And I'm still finding it.

So, rather than trust that I will always be at Earthlink (and a good thing that), I replaced all those mailto: statements in my pages with links to this page. That way, if I ever change any of my e-mail info, it will mean only one place to change.

Frankly, it seems like a good enough idea, I can't believe that nobody else has thought of it ...

	This page and its contents, unless otherwise noted, are Copyright © 2001 by David C. Hill
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