I've recently wound up being in the (Toronto) real estate market, whichhas given me an interesting opportunity to see both how much the modernweb has changed the world (okay, the way things are done), and how muchfurther it still could go.

(Usually I don't have much exposure to ordinary commercial websitesunless I'm looking for something ;it's only then that I get to experience the full joys and annoyancesof dealing with whatever companies have decided is theoreticallyuseful

I just went to an annoying amount of work to send out some email withan alternate and expendable address here in such a way that it wascarefully scrubbed of all traces of my real email address (no Sender: ,no envelope origin address, no nothing), but I also put my name on themessage.

(The annoying amount of effort required is another rant.)

On the one hand, I'm a paranoid about giving people my email address,or when I have to give them an email