This is Andrew Alder's contact page
You probably came here from another web page via an email me or email the webservant or even email the webmaster link
The best way: At the bottom of every page there's a contact the owner link that takes you to http://alderspace.pbworks.com/w/contact-owner (as will that link too), which is an HTML form and will send me an email.
If you don't want to email me right now but may want to later, just bookmark this page, or even the one that sent you here (or both), or the link to the form I gave above.
Other alternatives to the email link
Wikipedia
One other way to contact me is at my English Wikipedia talk page. You can leave anonymous comments there, although that does show your IP address to the public. Or you can create an account on Wikipedia, which gives you even more privacy, and a spam-proof email facility.
Of course, if you post anonymously to my talk page, there's then the question of how I reply to you. And if you put your email address in your post there (which is definitely not recommended) it exposes you to spam.
And if the reason you want to contact me is that you're already blocked or banned from Wikipedia (a very common reason that people do come here) that obviously won't work. But I'm happy to review the reasons for your blocks and bans. As I see it, it's one of my jobs as an administrator on English Wikipedia.
Why is spam such a problem?
In a word: Incompetence. The authorities have available to them many effective ways of dealing with spam, and Internet porn, and phishing frauds, and Nigerian scams, and all the other alleged and actual evils of the Internet. But they don't seem to have a clue, any more than do those activists who seem to have political influence. So I guess the other word for it is politics. It's sad.
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