Boojum

Nigeria.

We have to begin somewhere, Bruce. Why not in our own country?

Montana.

Intelligent. (I've noticed that words like "geek" and "nerd" get applied to people who dare to reveal that they actually have working encephalons. )

Arizona.

Just one caveat about e-mail filtering: Spammers are usually one step ahead of any attempt to ban or block them. By the time you get an e-mail address and set up your panel to block it, the same spammer may well be sending you mail from a different address. And if that one isn't, forty-two other ones will be. Now, there's nothing wrong with Raul's idea. By all means, filter addresses and hope that will suffice. But in case it doesn't, you may want to read the documentation and find out how to set up an e-mail account specifically to collect probable spam. If you're feeling ambitious, you can also find key phrases used by your particular set of spammers and try filtering for those as well. The spammers, it seems to me, are just another manifestation of our nation's new anything-for-a-buck ethos--sort of Enrons in a teacup. I cannot consider them worse than virus-makers and other malicious hackers, but they are certainly on a par with the latter. We need to get Congress off its collective gluteus maximus and to work on passing some new privacy and anti-spam laws with real teeth in them. But that will take a significant political transformation in Washington--starting with clearing some corrupt incumbents out of Capitol Hill and other places of power.

Ethiopia.

North America.

Africa.

Natalie: I haven't yet had the need to do so myself (crosses fingers, toes and several other body parts), but I understand you can set up a spam-catching account through CPanel. Unfortunately, I know next to nothing about the procedure; you will either have to read the documentation or wait for someone more expert to come along and advise you on implementation.

Saudi Arabia. {Note: stevevan is disqualified for using a duplicate entry; "Antigua" was previously entered by brich on page 1.}

Asia. {Interesting to note, apropos of this game: Six continents begin and end with "a" while the seventh begins and ends with "e."}

Albania. {Note: axeman is disqualified for using a duplicate entry; "Alaska" was previously entered by TCH-Robert.}

Prolate (spheroid).

Mauretania.

Exactly my luck: I have Mac OS 9. Oh, well. I have to do something, so I'll just go with my workaround unless someone has an inspiration.

Now I wonder: Is Mac OS X part of the three percent or the four percent?

The whole trouble here is specifically that I can't check my pages offline if the images are in an online folder, and the only way to have an online "images" folder is to upload my images separately from the pages themselves--rather an awkward solution. Any suggestions, anyone?

North Korea.

Namibia.

Damascus.

Madmanmcp: Before uploading any of my pages, I like to "preflight" them--to examine them from my hard drive so they look right before I upload them and their associated images. (One possible workaround did occur to me: Since the old version of my site [the one currently on the web] has its images loose rather than in an "images" folder at all, I could, if no better idea presents itself, upload the entire "images" folder--which will not be "noticed" by anyone viewing the current pages--and then call on that. But this seems a bit awkward. ) Does anyone have any more elegant solutions, or am I stuck with my clunky workaround?

Hmm. Sudden concern about using absolute URLs for my images: Won't that require that I upload all the images before I can view my pages? And if so, won't that make preflighting pages much, much harder? (The scary thing is that I didn't think of this at first. )

Lachrymose.

Kauai.