academia.edu is definitely spammy but not officially a scam as such. They are a non-free research respository. It would be interesting to see if they took your word for ownership - though the actual … (View Post)

I find that a bit of a curse. I have firstname.lastname@gmail.com and get various emails not intended for me from around the world. I have applied to the court in Florida to have my convictions remov… (View Post)

Indeed. We get a discount (for what it is worth) for having no drainage off the property other than the foul water. It wasn't hard to do. Dig a soakaway or two, rainwater barrels everywhere, and… (View Post)

Reporting should be clear and unambiguous. "From" is ambiguous as witnessed by this discussion. "Lives in" is not. Why not use the latter? It doesn't cost much. (View Post)

I think self-identification is entirely normal. Given Mr Masum has not been found to ask, we should use a more factual form of language than "from". One thing I don't quite understand … (View Post)