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There are a few simple things you can do to greatly reduce or even nearly eliminate your likelihood of being deluged by spam. First, I want to distinguish what I mean by “spam” as opposed to “another annoying email.” If you have an account at Macy’s or buy from Amazon.com or got some software from […]

Glad that’s settled! Following some tweets inquiring as to whether it is more properly “website” or “web site” — the question posted by @jonimueller of Pixelita Designs — I was interested to see an answer as my complete OED dates from the mid-90s and doesn’t include the term.

This is critical information for you to review. Your domain name is registered (“rented,” if you want to think of it that way) through a “registrar.” These are accredited by ICANN so that they can do this service for a fee. However, there are a lot of bad apples in the group; frequent complaints involve either (a) […]

This is not to say that there aren’t a lot of baddies out there with plenty of time and nefarious goals. But most internet safety is common sense.