Our home page is moving.

Nope, not our domain that's linked here, but our home page that we've had since 1996.

Let's say the neighborhood's gotten bad. It wasn't just the glut of fake Microsoft mails that crowded the box. Those have slowed "to a crawl" compared to a month ago--we only get six or seven of the 156KB messages every four hours now.

But on the heels of the "Microslop" invasion came another glut of spam. I'd been pretty inured to the occasional Viagra, prescription drugs for less, and porn spam, but the first two are coming in dozens now and the latter are just getting ... disgusting. I enjoy an adult story now and then just fine, and I have no problem with consenting adults looking at other consenting adults on the web. But the "hot babes" e-mails have given way to messages with explicit language, bestiality and kinky sex references, and worst of all, talk of child porn. Ugh.

So what's this got to do with the web site, you ask?

Well, at Earthlink at least, your main web site is tied to your e-mail address. If I delete the jlyoung e-mail addy, I also delete the ~jlyoung website.

In any case, with Earthlink we get eight mailboxes. With each mailbox we get 10MB of webspace. So the home page site will have a more appropriate title, and has its own e-mail address. It's actually up now, but I want to update two more pages before I do a redirect; if I stay "on course," that will be in a couple of days and then there will be a redirect for the remainder of the month.

The new addy will be linked at "Visit Us at Home," of course!

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