Nina's dad hooked me up with a guest account on the MIT servers, which is actually just my old account reinstated. When I left MIT in May of 2005, they said they would take down my user account by the end of the year. The account stayed active until January 19th. When they closed the account, they apparently archived everything, including my bloated inbox. By the looks of it, I hadn't checked my email at MIT since September 25th.

I had accumulated over 5,500 emails between September 25th and January 19th, and about 5,400 of those were spam. Yowch. I didn't even bother looking through them to sort out the valid emails; I just nuked everything. If you sent me email at mit.edu last fall/winter and I didn't respond, I hope you figured it out by now.

Anyway, it's nice to have an account there again, as it gives me access to the library and journals, etc. Thanks Dick!