Inbox

Seventeen letters arrived in our Christmas inbox! All seventeen turned out to be spam. If you are a robot, or a genuine fan who happens to be a purveyor of legal or illegal pharmaceutical products, literature and cinema of special interest to the lonely gentleman, expired marmalade, job opportunities in Ukraine, discount coupons printed on toilet paper, folding chairs for Kardashian-class bottoms, Trump NFTs, Spanish Inquisition memorabilia, or any such items or services of interest to law-enforcement agencies such as, but not limited to mail-order brides, stuffed meerkats, trained dolphins, Nazi cutlery, radioactive pudding, rusty artillery, and so on, we suggest that you exclude any links to your catalogue in your mail to us. We really aren’t interested in perusing your warez. (See the rules, below).

Most of us agreed that a new department to deal with fan mail was needed. Smith has kindly offered to deal with the smut and spam that makes it through Google’s spam filters and into his Mutt inbox. Smith’s rules (🤷):

• If it has an attachment–any attachment of any kind–it is deleted.
• If it contains a URL, or a shortened URL, it is deleted.
• Mail should be (in order of preference): plain text, markdown, simple HTML.
• I decide what is simple HTML. If it’s not, it is deleted.

Sometimes e-mails from one of us to the editor have disappeared for no obvious reason. We suspect the intervention of the mysterious Nietzsche AI. 🤔

We assume that if you write to us, you give us permission to edit and publish your letter. The Outsider may publish your letter if it gets through Smith’s filters, (and if the editor bothers to read it. Let’s see how long it takes for him to notice that I’ve altered this page –π). If your letter isn’t published it probably did not squeeze past Smith. Our inbox has been empty ever since Smith took charge as moderator. Please do try again. If we decide to publish your letter:

• We will not publish your e-mail address or your surname.
• Your name will be published. If you want to conceal your real name, please do use a genuine fake name. Utterly Random™ names are encouraged.

When (and if) we have subscribers, we might allow them access to our Discord server. The resident paradox has not voted on the matter of subscribers yet and, as such, the subscribe button below doesn’t actually do anything, so feel free to click away!

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