Dear Julie Kantor, Wherever You Are:

I noticed you got a new cell phone. I noticed this because when you signed up at the AT&T Wireless Web site, you gave your e-mail address as "jpkantor@kantor.com." I guess you thought you were being cute by putting ".com" on your last name to avoid all the spam that comes when you give out your address like that.

As the guy who owns kantor.com, and thus gets all the mail, I've been seeing messages come in for "jpkantor." Luckily, one of those messages was from AT&T. Unfortunately, the only way to opt out of the junk mail it sends is to 'change my preferences' on the site -- something I can't do because only you have the password.

Thus, I'm stuck getting your junk mail.

But wait. Look at that: AT&T's mail gives your wireless phone number: 973-216-5659. And the AT&T site explains how to send text messages to its customers: just sent it to the phone number @ mobile.att.net.

I therefore took the liberty of forwarding all the junk that comes into "jpkantor" to "9732165659@mobile.att.net." So as your cell phone's e-mail box starts filling up with all those junk-mail text messages, I hope you'll think of me. Because obviously you didn't when you signed up for the e-mail in the first place.