| Family Contact Info - how to get in touch with us (along with some inconsequential) grammatical notes |
| We want to be accessible to family and friends, including those who have not yet received from us our telephone numbers, email addresses, website URLs, etc. But the internet is a wide-open place in which lurk spammers and worse. Rather than going through the whole business of a password-protected family website, we've set up the following lazy way to contact us individually by email.
Here's how to send us individual email (or should that be "email individually"?): 1) Whichever of us you want to contact, send your email to <fischerw@pdx.edu>. That's Bill's email at work. From there your email will be filtered and forwarded for reply from whomever you intended to receive it. (Note the careful use of the object-case pronoun "whoMever" in the previous sentence - not that most of us really care about such things.) 2) In the "subject" or "about" field your message enter the following phrase just as you see it here: <private message via fischerw>. You can just highlight, copy and insert the phrase from here. If you want, add elsewhere in the "subject" line the name of whichever of us you are contacting. 3) We'll use an email filter to detect that base phrase and automatically sort all such messages into a separate folder. Every now and then we'll sort through them and forward them by email to the appropriate person. Then whoever you intended to receive your message will then answer it and send you individual contact information. After that you won't have to use the filter system. (Note the careful use of the subject-case pronoun "whoever" - this time with no M - in the antepenultimate sentence of this paragraph, since it is indeed the subject of the verb "will answer", despite the distraction of the verb "intended," which some might think requires a hypercorrect "whoMever". Not that most of us really care about such things, or about fragmentary sentences like - or is it "such as"? - this one, except that one's judgment about whether this is a fragmentary sentence affects whether the "whoever" sentence is the antepenultimate or just the penultimate sentence of the paragraph - although it is, in either case, the third sentence of the paragraph [period here or not??]) |‘:-) (emoticon intended to represent pedant's head with mortarboard and tassel) |