To protect myself from spammers' address harvesting robots, I have had to disguise my email address on my web pages. This page provides two ways to email me. The first requires javascript. If you run your web browser with javascript turned off (a strongly recommended security measure), use the second method, which requires you to manually make changes in the email address generated by the browser. Also, before emailing me, please read below about not sending html (web paged coded) messages, Microsoft Word files, etc.
email (javascript):
email (no javascript): In the address in the following link, please delete "_9117" and also make the obvious omission: ncp_9117@darkwing.uoregon.OMITthis.edu
Normally, I read plain text (7 bit ASCII) only. See the first table here, but exclude the characters in positions 0--31 and 127. (These are essentially the characters found on a standard English language keyboard. Note that this excludes "educated" (curved) quotation marks, curved apostrophes, all accented letters (use "ue" or the TeX code "\"{u}" for u Umlaut), and some characters that Microsoft claims are plain text.)
Except by prior arrangement.
Reasons here.
I do not accept these under any circumstances, since I don't have software that reads them. See:
See "Configuring Mail Clients to Send Plain ASCII Text" for how to turn off html. While primarily about something else, this UO page also explains how to turn off html in some common email programs, and points out that this is "a generally useful and courteous thing to do". To summarize part of one of the websites listed below:
Here are some collections of spam I have received: page 1, page 2, page 3, page 4, page 5, and page 6. Please don't do business with these people or support their political causes. Here I single out some particularly persistent spammers: