Sending Mail To Tino

If you do not follow these instructions, your mail will most likely not be read. Not because we like ignoring you, but because we'll never see it.

Mail from random people to addresses @tinotopia.com should include the word "NOTSPAM" (without quotes) in the subect line. Please note that this is "NOTSPAM" and not "NOT SPAM". See below for more.

We at Tino are sorry that it's come to this, but the volume of spam is overwhelming the clerks, and so we're fighting on all fronts.

We want to read your mail -- really, if you're wondering whether to send something, by all means send it -- but we find that a lot of random messages sent in response to things on the website wind up in the spam hopper, unseen for days or weeks, if not forever.

The spam filters here operate according to a number of rules, rules which can result in innocent mail being incorrectly classified as spam. It's not worth going into the speciic rules here, because they're always changing. One piece of advice we'll give is that you should avoid generic subject lines -- messages with subjects like 'hi' or 'interesting' or 'you'll like this' or other such innocuous favorites of spammers are almost certain not to ever be seen by a human.

In any case, you can bypass the whole shebang simply by putting the word NOTSPAM -- in all caps -- into your subject: line. If you do this, your message will be correctly routed, even if it's about V1AGRA!!!! or H0T NUDE TEENS!!!!!!!

You are asked, though, not to send any mail about either of those things.

You should be aware, if you use this method, that you accepting the terms of the following agreement. It basically says that, if you label your mail "NOTSPAM", and it's actually mass-generated commercial e-mail, you agree to pay Tinotopia a sum of not less than $5,000 per message. If you're typing an individual message, and you have a valid return address on your message (even if it's obfuscated), you have nothing to worry about.

1. This is an agreement between you, the sender of messages labelled "NOTSPAM" in the subject: header, and the recipient of such messages in the tinotopia.com domain ("us", "we", "recipient"). You freely enter into this agreement by sending "NOTSPAM"-labelled messages that are received on or processed by tinotopia.com's mail server, and you agree to be bound by its terms.
2. You warrant that your "NOTSPAM"-labelled message is not unsolicited commercial or bulk email, but a unique message created and sent by an individual human being, and does not consist primarily of advertising, pornography, viruses, or trojan horses.
3. You further warrant that your "NOTSPAM"-labelled message contains valid routing information, including a from: header that accurately represents your identity.
4. You further warrant that your "NOTSPAM"-labelled message contains either a from: header or a reply-to: header or both that points to an existing mailbox read by the same individual human being who originated the message.
5. If you send messages labelled, in the subject header, "NOTSPAM", that are not in compliance with the terms of this Agreement, you agree to pay, promptly on the receipt of an invoice, the recipient(s) of the message US$5,000 in handling charges, plus actual damages (if any), plus attorney's fees or other costs incurred in collecting this amount from you.
6. This agreement is governed by the laws of the United States and the Commonwealth of Virginia. Any legal action relating to this Agreement will be brought in the federal or state courts located in Virginia; you consent to the jurisdiction of said courts. Our failure to monitor and enforce your exact adherence of any part of this Agreement does not constitute a waiver of our right subsequently to enforce any part of this Agreement. The invalidity of any part of this agreement will not affect the validity of any other part.

Mail should be sent to tino at tinotopia dot com, first changing 'at' to '@' and 'dot' to '.', of course.

If you would like to encrypt your message to Tino, his public key can be found below. You can simply click in the box, do a 'select all' and paste the thing into your favorite encryption utility.