Isn’t it amazing how many people are concerned about you on the Internet?

You create a new email address and in no time at all, perfect strangers are suddenly very concerned about you having the best credit card, the best home loan, and especially the best “bedroom performance” possible. All of these “kind” people are sending you email every day in order to be sure you are up to date with the latest in electronics, the prettiest of Russian mail-order brides, and the most “exciting” websites you could ever want to visit.

The Problem

We have all been a victim of it. This thing called “email spam.” Unsolicited emails that clog your inbasket and make it very hard for you to find the emails that you actually care about. Congress has finally made some attempt to control spam, but there are still far too many loopholes for the unscrupulous to dive through in order to assault your inbox with junk email.

There are various tools you can use to try to cut down on the amount of spam that reaches you. If your email software allows for it, you can use a spam filter as well as a black list or white list. Unfortunately, each of these tools has their own drawbacks.

One Good Step Towards a Solution

One of the best ways to deal with spam email is to avoid the online behaviors that cause your email address to be picked up by spammers and added to their lists. What follows is a set of rules to help reduce the chances that your inbox will fall prey to a spammer’s unwanted attentions:

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Greetings Citizens of the Realm!

The Paladin is pleased to announce that the “landing page” of his web site has seen some changes in order to make it easier for you to quickly get to where you want to be going. It is still in need of a bit of tweaking, and that will be occurring in the next week.

We hope you will find these changes improve your “user experience.” Be sure to drop us a note and let us know what you think.

Greetings Citizens of the Realm!

Tonight the Paladin wishes to discuss a rather basic part of security for your data. He is referring to the venerable beast known as a “password.”

It seems these days that we have more passwords than we know what to do with. We have passwords for our email, passwords for our computer systems at work, passwords for our home computer, passwords for our phone account, internet account, cable account, and on and on and on.

In fact, the Paladin believes with a quick count that he currently has to keep track of approximately 50 passwords at any one time (or more). This is quite a task.

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