NOTICE:
The page below has been permenently FROZEN as of January 2000.
Due to resource limitations,
this section of our website is no longer maintained,
so some links may not work and some information may be out of date.
We have retained this page for archive reference only,
and we cannot vouch for its accuracy.
Broken links will not be repaired,
and minor errors will not be corrected.
You are responsible for independently verifying any information you may find here.
More Info
For more recent information about Area 51, see the new
Area 51 Research Center
maintained by Don Emory.
Area51rc@aol.com for
product inquiries, ordes and other customer service relating to our
mail order business. (Research Center staff)
campbell@ufomind.com
for general inquiries that can't be handled by the other two
addresses. This address is often overloaded.
Email Policies
We try to respond to all personal email messages, but with the enormous volume we are now receiving this may not always be possible. To help control our mail load and increase the likelihood of a response, please note the following....
Please be brief and make your request simple.
We are more likely to have time for short, simple messages
than long, complex ones.
Make sure that the subject line indicates your purpose.
This helps us sort messages before we read them.
If you are asking for anything, make sure your request appears near the top of the email so we find it right away.
Address messages to webmaster@ufomind.com or Area51rc@aol.com for items relating to web or catalog business. These addresses are less likely to be overloaded than campbell@ufomind.com.
Please try to find information on our web site before emailing
us for it.
Sometimes our mail queue becomes overloaded, especially on campbell@ufomind.com, and we are forced to set messages aside without
processing them. In this case, we give priority to messages that are easiest to deal with.
If you have sent us a request or other important message and have not recieved a reply within a few days, feel free to email us again.
We appreciate receiving any intelligently selected articles or data that you think might contribute to our WWW structure or newsletter (send to webmaster@ufomind.com). We do not like "dumpers," however--people who repeatedly dump long messages and many files on us with little regard for our interests or capacity. Make sure point out to us the relevence of what you are sending (if it is not obvious); otherwise, we might ignore it.
Other courtesies we ask...
Please check with us in advance before sending long files (20K or more).
Do not send us chain letters.
Do not subscribe us to mailing lists without our permission.
Confidentiality of Mail and Email
We generally hold incoming correspondence and the identities of
the authors as confidential, subject to the
following commensense rules. Our aim is to protect our sources
and their trust of us while not imposing so many restrictions that
we cannot get things done. We try to use our best discretion
with any message we receive, protecting our sources while
adhering to journalistic ethics and responsibilities.
We regard any message posted to any internet newsgroup or any
information already published in magazines or newsletters as
public information. We may quote or repost this information,
including the posted email address of the author, without notice
or permission. (We will use our discretion here, however.)
On our Web page, we may occasionally publish quotes
from our readers that they have sent us by mail, email or
verbally.
If the quote only provides public information or
expresses an opinion that cannot be traced to the author,
we may (with thoughtful discretion) reprint this quote
without asking the author's permission. We will not, however,
publish the author's email address or any other identifying
information unless we have attempted to notified him (in the
case of non-sensitive comments) or explicitly obtained his permission
(in the case of comments which might contain "sensitive"
or non-public information).
We encourage intelligent criticism of our work, but
major breaches of courtesy (i.e. "flames" which any other
reader would regard as far exceeding the bounds of courtesy)
will result in a withdrawal of courtesies by us. We will feel
free to publish flames and names of their author without permission
and without notice.
We cannot guarantee the security of our phone lines
(over which our email travels). We also cannot guarantee
that our computer files will not be compromised in a physical
theft or break-in.
We do not support PGP encryption at present. If any message
requires that kind of security, we assume that (A) it is the
paranoid rantings of a conspiracy buff, or (B) it is so sensitive
that it shouldn't be sent by email anyway. We are seeking open
information and clues about how to find it. We are not seeking
classified information or any intelligence which might possibly
land a source in jail.
If you feel that your message is sensitive or confidential, it
is wise to say so at the top of the message, so we have no
doubt about how to treat it.
If you tell us a message is confidential or
should not be reprinted, we will usually
respect your wishes, except in any of these cases:
If the message is in any way threatening.
If the message far exceeds the bounds of common courtesy (a "flame").
You are claiming copyright infringement on our site or are
demanding extraordinary action that is against our normal
policies, like the removal of a mailing list document.