Contacting TK Boyd / Sheepdog Software (tm)

I'm usually glad to hear from readers. My eddress is:

My email address as a graphic

I'm afraid that's a graphic and that you'll need to type it by hand.... having machine readable copies of an eddress on webpages increases spam.

Want a form-based response option? For you there is my 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, if you want a response, I need some way to contact you! If you send me an email the usual way, it makes things easier at my end.

I'm most pleased to hear from people who send plain text emails, without attachments. In fact, I usually delete attachments unread. There's a fax number below, if you want to send me some diagram.

If you use Outlook Express: First: My sympathies. Try Pegasus or Eudora! 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 entry in your address book.

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. Please indicate which of my pages you think your link should go on.

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, or via 0871-661-2767 in the UK.

Those, by the way, are free services from www.efax.com and www.pumaone.com, respectively. Signing up for them was simple and the questions reasonable. You can "send a fax" to me, 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! (You can send the fax at any time of day or night, by the way... you won't wake anyone up.) I've had the services for a some time now, entirely happy with both. 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?

I'm also the owner of the trademark "Sheepdog Software".

If you use an MS-DOS or Windows PC, please visit my freeware and shareware page, download something, and circulate it for me?

Click here to visit editor's freeware, shareware page.

Link to editor's (Arunet) homepage

See the graphic near the start of this page for my eddress. ("Eddress"? Email address. I lay claim to having invented that word. Again, the Way Back machine will show you how long I've been using it.)