Because we have had our email address in plain text on these web pages for a long time we are now experiencing a huge daily volume of spam (UCP, unsolicited commercial email). Hundreds, daily. We have to take serious steps to reduce this as, despite filtering by ourselves and our isp, this causes us a tremendous waste of time. Spam bots harvest email addresses on web sites continually and we have given them no hindrance in our ignorance.
All email addresses on this site have now been encoded which means that you should still see them, and should still be able to click on them to invoke your email client.
A small number of internet users will be troubled by this because they may be using older browsers for one reason or another. We do apologise to them, but list our email address below in an easily decipherable form.
If you have a problem, please do let us know whether you simply cannot see the email addresses, or whether the links do not work. The encoded addresses all show a blue graphical at sign. If you spot one in plain text we would appreciate your letting us know
If you are interested in our method of doing the encoding we refer you to Rick Parson's Anti-Spam page for Mail.exe which features a small free downloadable script and require you to do a bit of cut-and-paste in your html files. There is also encoder.zip which produces a slightly different format, but has the advantage that you can drag and drop html files onto it and it will automagically run through them and change all the tagged email addresses.
I declined to use a form mailer, mainly because I do not like them myself and prefer to work within my own emailer but I may add a form to this page in the near future.
Created on 16th March 2004. I have looked at this page again on 16th December 2004, fortuitously and exactly 9 months later. You will ask, did spam levels drop in the interim? There are other factors at work however. My ISP lets a lot through and I regretfully have closed my old @imaginet addresses since they became near unuseable. They promise better. I note that other organisations, out of the goodness of their heart, take one's details and publish them freely on the web, thus I see my name and email plainly listed on sites offering information on where to source africana books. So you cannot win and we must applaud and hope that recent legal steps to stop this traffic will have some effect in the years ahead.