This is quite unlike those who send most of the junk mail I receive at my physical address, who will stop sending it if requested to do so—but then, it costs them money to send out each piece of junk mail. It costs so little to send out bulk email that the senders don’t really care how many people don’t want it. I’ve never received a piece of sexually explicit junk mail, much less had one arrive addressed to one of the kids in our household. Spammers happily send pornographic spam out to children every day. In short, I think spammers are scum who heartily deserve to be permanently removed from the internet and denied access to all the wonderful resources it offers.

Yes, that was a rant.

My strong feelings on this subject led to being stalked by one spammer. I still hold those feelings and will continue to fight unsolicited commercial email and inappropriate commercial posts in usenet despite that harassment. His behavior is not, fortunately, typical of spammers, but other people have been harassed in various ways by spammers looking for revenge. One of this creep’s tricks has been to reply to spam he receives using my email address, so that I’ll receive mail from that spammer in the future (I found out when some of his messages bounced back to me). If someone starts doing that to you as well, you’ll have a much harder time getting rid of the spam–but don’t give up!

In this series, I’ll share what I’ve learned in 15 years of experience online about avoiding, reporting, and fighting spam.

I do general, technical, health and business writing. Articles here have been chosen to represent that variety. Some will seem a bit dated, but that’s the nature of the technology. Unfortunately, the bulk of my work as a technical writer is subject to confidentiality agreements, and cannot be placed in a portfolio. The same caveat applies to business plans and proposals. For that reason, I’ve chosen to include a few class projects as examples of what I can do.

My résumé is also available. This version shows my full work history, demonstrating the diversity of my experience.