My email policy

You may at a point wish to send me email, and if you do, please put an effort in doing it properly. There are few things I like, and the quality of an average email is not one. People don't seem to understand the joy of receiving good email, and therefore only a few actually proofraed their email before sending it. Not being meticulous when writing email is an insult to the reader.

Below is a list of requirements I have for reading your email:

• Never send me email formatted in HTML. Email is text and not a website. My spam filter will knock this into a certain file called /dev/null.
• The text should be correctly wrapped. This means at 72-76 characters if your mail client doesn't know. It's really annoying reading email written on a single, long line.
• Never send me any web postcards, -greetings or similar junk. Companies do not offer these services out of their good heart. They only do it to harvest adresses to send spam to, and I receive my share of spam already.
• Spell correctly. Illiterate people are excused. I recommend Danes learn a bit from here.
• Spelling errors in the subject line is probably number 5 or 4 on my list of unwanted things.
• Use commas, and use them properly. It's a nightmare to read a text where the author hasn't bothered to put a minimal effort into making his text readable.
• Make sure that you write below the original text when replying. Cut away irrelevant text, and make sure to separate your own text from the text, you're replying to. It's awful to read mail where the old and the new text are thrown together.
• Don't send me files if I haven't agreed to receive them. If you need me to look at something I haven't agreed to receive, put it on a web page and send me the URI. This way I can decided whether or not I want to take the time needed to fetch it.
• Most important: Use your common sense. If you are a reasonable person, you should be able to figure out how to behave.

Please also note that any email delivered to my address will be considered my property, and therefore I will post it on my pages without your notice or approval, if I feel inclined to do so. If you write something clever to me, I might ask your permission to publish (part of) it here, if I find it useful in any way.

In order to contact me, you kan use the following email address: