Contacting Anton McClure

E-Mail

I have a multitude of e-mail addresses. Please use the correct one. I expect the Aperture e-mail address to be permanent. It's been used in mailing lists and given to people I consider too important for the address to break on. But in the event it does go away, the GNU address is likely to be permanent too. If I have given you any e-mail addresses in the past on something other than gnu.org or aperture.akron.oh.us: those should be considered deprecated and also replaced with Aperture.

My primary e-mail addresses. The first two are the best way to reach me on my personal GNU/Linux system, and the second two on Fencepost. If you would like to send encrypted and/or signed e-mails to me, you will need my PGP key. I expect the Aperture e-mail address to be permanent. It's been used in mailing lists and given to people I consider too important for the address to break on. But in the event it does go away, the GNU address is likely to be permanent too. If I have given you any e-mail addresses in the past on other .oh.us subdomains: you can replace those with the aperture one. If it was on any domain not listed here, those should be considered deprecated and also replaced with Aperture.: asm@aperture.akron.oh.us; asm@ocelot.aperture.akron.oh.us; asm@gnu.org; asm@fencepost.gnu.org
My accounts on the non-Ocelot Aperture machines. While I expect these machines to be around for while, these addresses may not be as permanent as the ones above.: asm@havox.aperture.akron.oh.us; asm@cata.aperture.akron.oh.us; asm@midnight.aperture.akron.oh.us; asm@tiff.aperture.akron.oh.us; asm@raven.aperture.akron.oh.us
My University e-mail addresses. The UAnet.EDU and UAkron.EDU e-mail addresses should also only be used for anything to do with the University of Akron. The SA (Student Assistant) account should only be used by faculty, staff, and students of the College of Business. The ADM (Administrator) account should only be used by faculty, staff, and students for Information Technology Services related purposes.: asm135@uanet.edu; asm135@uakron.edu; sa_asm135@uanet.edu; sa_asm135@uakron.edu; adm_asm135@uanet.edu; adm_asm135@uakron.edu
System administration addresses for Aperture's systems. Please be sure to use the correct one, as they may not all go to the same places! (For example: Adam is also a newsmaster.) If you are a user on ocelot, you may read /etc/mail/aliases to find which address to use.: postmaster@aperture.akron.oh.us; hostmaster@aperture.akron.oh.us; newsmaster@aperture.akron.oh.us; webmaster@aperture.akron.oh.us; ftpmaster@aperture.akron.oh.us; abuse@aperture.akron.oh.us; security@aperture.akron.oh.us; bugs@aperture.akron.oh.us; help@aperture.akron.oh.us; sysadmin@aperture.akron.oh.us
Old shell server accounts that redirect to asm@aperture.akron.oh.us. These are mentioned here as some old resources may still reference them. It would be best to use @aperture.akron.oh.us for new things though. If you can, you should also update anything using these addresses to instead use the new one.: amcclure@blinkenshell.org; amcclure@sdf.org; asm@sdf.org; asm@ma.sdf.org

Before You Contact Me

If you are commenting about an issue on my web site, your feedback is welcome. Your message should include the URL or group of URLs that you are referring to. It is not always clear when simply describing page contents on its own.

If you are contacting me due to an issue on a URL that does not begin with http://www.aperture.akron.oh.us/~asm/ but it is from another user or page on www.aperture.akron.oh.us, you will want to contact that user instead. If it is not a user page, or not on *.aperture.akron.oh.us, you will want to contact the webmaster of the specific server, typically using e-mail messages. The webmaster e-mail addresses are typically going to be in a format such as webmaster@host.example.oh.us.

If you wish to send me a confidential message, you do not want to use e-mail, phone calls, or any other digital form for that matter. Digital communications are never truly going to be private, and multiple third-parties can always access the messages. End-to-end encryption is also worthless when there are backdoors into those encryption mechanisms.

If you are from the University of Akron, use your @uanet.edu, @uakron.edu, @zips.uakron.edu, or @1870.uakron.edu, unless we have already spoken enough times, and you've shared your personal or other professional e-mail address with me in person.

Why I'm Not Answering Your E-Mail

If you sent me an e-mail and I haven't responded, there is a number of reasons why this may have happened.

The most likely ones are that I either did respond but your system bounced due to a misconfigured spam filter, or I did not consider a response to be necessary. Either of our servers may have blocked the message for a number of reasons. If you are a friend, and you tried e-mailing me multiple times, it may be an issue with one of our Message Transfer Agents (MTAs). Checking the mail log files in /var/log/ should give sufficient information on what is going wrong in most cases.

Your e-mail messages should be sent either in English or with an English translation provided, written to the best of your ability. If I cannot read and/or understand your e-mail, I will not reply. While I do know people who can translate various languages, using this option will not be ideal for communications that involve sensitive information. Naturally, he/she will understand what you wrote.

If you administer your own e-mail server, ensure that your machine can both send messages to and receive messages from both ocelot.Aperture.Akron.OH.US (162.198.140.77 and 2600:1700:5960:8a0::40) and havox.Aperture.Akron.OH.US (176.126.244.77 and 2a00:1098:cc::1). If someone else administers the e-mail server for you, ask him/her to ensure messages can be sent and received. This may resolve most issues that would be on your end. If your ISP or mailing service provider blocks this server's IP or domain, consider asking your ISP to stop blocking us on your account.

Ultimately, there is also the chance that I did receive your e-mail, was able to read it, and I was able to reply, but I just chose not to do so. Keep in mind that nobody is required to reply to every message that he/she gets, especially if your email is just Unsolicited Commercial E-Mail (a.k.a. spam).

PGP / GnuPG

My current PGP Key: 758D51B8E0829106 (fingerprint: 92B37A484DE30DB661E84B58758D51B8E0829106).

I do not use keyservers. I did not trust them before Robert J. Hansen wrote and published "SKS Keyserver Network Under Attack" either.

If we know each other well enough, and will like to give me your own GPG key, we may meet to share and verify our keys face-to-face.

Physical mail

Please use e-mail instead.

Telephone

If you wish to go to voicemail on a line I hardly ever answer, you may use +1 (425) 256-7515 (also reachable via +1 (206) 299-2120 ext 2144). If I have given you a different phone number, use that one instead. For most of who I have given telephone numbers to, as well as those I have not: please use e-mail instead.