Infinite Ink
writing and publishing about
computing, mathematics, science, and philosophy

Work In Progress   Check out Deflexion.com: Deflexion & Reflexion from Nancy McGough for an experiment in blogging and feeding that is based on Blogger and Del.icio.us. In 2006, all Nancy's public postings, bookmarks, and web sites, including this Infinite Ink site, will be intertwingled using feeds, message deflexion, Del.icio.us, Planet or some other web-based aggregator, and Drupal, JotSpot, or some other content management system.

Quick Directory   The most popular and up-to-date pages at Infinite Ink are:

• IMAP Service Providers: A Step in Dealing with Viruses, Spam, and Email Overload
  • IMAP-Related News
  
  
  
• Reverse Spam Filtering: Winning Without Fighting
  
  
• Procmail Quick Start: An Introduction to Mail Filtering with a Focus on Procmail
  • Procmail-Related News
  
  
  
• All About Pine: POP, IMAP, NNTP, & ESMTP for Unix, Mac OS X, and MS Windows
  • Pine-Related News
  
  
  
• Power Pine: Getting the Most out of Unix-, Mac- and PC-Pine
  
  
• The Continuum Hypothesis (this isn't so up-to-date but it's surprisingly popular)

These six articles are by Nancy McGough, the primary perpetrator of Infinite Ink, but we also publish articles by others. For a more complete list of the pages at Infinite Ink, see the site directory. To search either the entire Web or the Infinite Ink site, use this Google search form.

	Web Infinite Ink

Support Infinite Ink!   If the writing at Infinite Ink is useful to you, please support Infinite Ink by:

• waiving the fee for your product, service, writing, conference, or course. Thank you to all the providers who give us free or discounted hosting; John Levine for sending us a copy of Fighting Spam for Dummies, qmail, and some of his other books; and Philip Hazel for waiving the fee to his Exim Course.
  
  
• signing up for one of the mail- or web-hosting providers that pays Infinite Ink a referral fee. For example DreamHost (which is where this Infinite Ink site is hosted), FastMail.FM, MailSnare, or JohnCompanies, which are described in detail (including promotion codes) on the IMAP Service Providers page in this, this, this, and this section.
  
  
• buying from Amazon.com and setting the referral ID to ii. There are ii referral links at Del.icio.us/Deflexion.com/Books, Qgravity.org, and at Infinite Ink's Bookstore & Recommended Reading, but you can buy any book and set the referral to ii by following the very outdated instructions that are at the bottom of our Bookstore page.
  
  
• bookmarking or linking to Infinite-Ink-related pages. Thank you to everyone who bookmarked this page, who bookmarked the IMAP Service Providers page, who bookmarked the Procmail Quick Start, who bookmarked the All About Pine page, who bookmarked the Reverse Spam Filtering page, or who bookmarked Deflexion.com.
  
  
• subscribing to the Infinite-Ink-related feeds, which are listed in the Deflexion.com sidebar.
  
  
• contacting us to make suggestions for how we can improve the Infinite Ink or Deflexion.com sites, or to find out how to donate money (GBP, EUR, USD) or stuff (books, software, hardware, etc.).
  
  
• sending a thank-you note (this type of support is as vital as financial support!).
  
  
• reading our ads, some of which are simply to promote things we support and that we think will make the world a better place.
  
  

If enough people support Infinite Ink, we will be able to work full time on the Infinite Ink writing and we could hire someone — maybe you! — to help.

Thank You to Peter Hilton of Hilton Harbour for creating the ii logo, to FavIcon Generator for converting the logo to a FavIcon (), to All Free Backgrounds for the water/ink background, to Joshua Schachter for Del.icio.us, and to Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen for Gmane. Thank you also to the many many people who have supported Infinite Ink over the years, including the people here, here, here, and here. There are many more people we want to publicly thank and after we turn this site into a wiki-blog, it will be much easier to keep our Thanks pages (and all the Infinite Ink pages) up to date.

Communication Request   If you want to contact Infinite Ink and your question or comment might be interesting to others, please post a comment at Deflexion.com. For details about how to do this and alternate ways to get in touch, see Make a Meta Comment.