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Please try to excuse my patronising tone, here and elsewhere.
I know that it can be - together with the latin snippets - irritating and pompous.
Unfortunately I do not seem able to correct this defect of mine.

My previous experiences on the web have sadly convinced me that feedback is almost always useless. The immense quantity of zombies annoying you with selfish requests is in no relation whatsoever with the very few interesting contribution crumbs one can hope to receive.
There are exceptions, though, and for that reason I'll still give it a try: Like all sites offering knowledge for free, my site needs your contributions to develop and ameliorate. Building on each other's shoulders we will eventually be able to reach higher levels and to send a couple of interesting "snowballs of ours" down the webhill. That's the reason I would like those of you that have enjoyed the knowledge found on my site to (try to) contribute with your own experiences, lists of querystrings or simple observations... if you reckon you found something valuable on my site, that is. If you do contribute, then others will be able to use your knowledge to progress even further: some other readers will contribute as well, thus helping others - as always - we'll all help ourselves.
Of course you don't need to help nor to contribute in order to enjoy this site. You may just leech everything you find here at leisure, if you prefer to do so, just go back to the [basic page], browse along and enjoy. Farewell

On the other hand, if you wish to help me, read further.

You may help me if you:

• point out any factual or linguistic mistake I have made; All constructive critics are PARTICULARLY welcome.
• send me any interesting essay of yours about advanced searching, I'll edit it if needed and of course give you full recognition (don't forget to use a working email address for the feedback you will receive once published);
• call my attention on broken links, incoherences, searching tools or stuff I haven't located or I'm not aware of and/or webcopycats that have ripped off my site in order to make money with the stuff I published - which is and should always remain completely free.

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Special help: Donors & university teachers

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Donors (not sponsors, I hate sponsors) may any time send me enough money (actually quite a lot) to allow me to leave my well-paid (if boring) real life job for a couple of years in order to dedicate all my time to this endeavour. I would love it. See: there is no advertisement, no sponsoring, no 'banner to click' on my site: since I have chosen -purposely- NOT to prostitute it I'm actually loosing money with all this, just for the sake of it.

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If you are an University teacher or director and are able to influence and/or organize workshops and/or conferences in your university, consider the possibility of inviting me.
I can present, with passion and purpose, a general introduction to global searching, any sort of how to search the web workshop or I can conduct more specifically oriented illustrated lectures, practical exercises, field searching seminars and technical web-reversing workshops.
I can teach my own new, innovative techniques or I can reinforce well-established methodologies through my reversing approach.

My lessons and seminars (up to 30 persons) are free for universities and public educational institutes, yet I do request reimbursement for my travel and accomodation costs.
European Union Universities will always have scheduling priority.
I can conduct courses in English, German, French, Spanish, Finnish or Italian (but I prefer to use english for terminological reasons).

Below are listed some examples of the most recent & important searching-related workshops I have held.  To obtain additional information concerning content and level of my workshops and seminars, just [contact me].

As a rule of thumb, contents are related to the web-savvyness of the partecipants: if people don't seem to understand a zilch we delve on the main search engines specifities and examine simple combing techniques, if the partecipants are web-savvy enough we examine bot-writing and some powerful approaches for 'algos and tools' reversing...

A recent workshop: Milan (Italy)
The art of information searching for the open culture aera
I held a conference/workshop in Milan (Italy) on 20 October 2000, celebrating the local "Linuxday". My [friend] [Richard Stallman] spoke in the morning (about GNU/Linux), I spoke in the afternoon about [The art of information searching for the open culture aera], presenting six short lesson/slides about simple effective searching techniques and 'the structure of the web'.

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A recent workshop: Paris (France)
The art of information searching on today's Internet
Conference held on 6 February 2001 at the Ecole polytechnique (Paris). I spoke about [the art of information searching on today's Internet], presenting five short lesson/slides about not well known effective searching lore, 'the structure of the web', some simple pseudo-anonymity techniques and the way you can modify and use some commercial tools for your own searching purposes.

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My next workshop: Brussels (Belgium)
How to find anything on the web: secrets and techniques for efficient seekers
This is a "closed" workshop, reserved for EU-officials. Workshop's minutes will be published after the conference.

• either
  fravia(at)yahoo(point)com
  (which, being a yahoo address, will for obvious reasons NEVER be used to answer you :-)
  
• or else
  fravia(at)operamail(point)com
  (Now pretty buggy, alas! I did appreciate operamail's infinite storing possibilities though :-)
  
• or, also, you may try
  fravia(at)linuxmail(point)org
  (buggy like there were no tomorrow, but quite useful since almost untrackable :-)
• Note that I may also use one-shot throwaway addresses to deliver my eventual answer. Rule of thumb: if specific parts of your email are inside my answer, then it's me wherever it comes from, duh...
• Note that I get much too many useless emails everyday, despite my (poor) grepping filters :-( so, please, don't ask me where you can download/find/track a target of yours, or else I might get nasty.

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Disclaimer of liability

and further legal mumbo-jumbo

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I do disclaim thee, oh Liability!

All information provided on my pages must not be duplicated or reproduced without express written permission by the operator of this web site (that's me, duh). All trademarks and copyrights belong to the respective holders, so be it. The information provided on my pages should only be used for academic purposes and must not be used to infringe the copyrights (or any other legal rights) of any company, organisation, government or legal entity. The information provided on my pages must in particular not be used to engage in any illegal activity [whatever that is supposed to mean under your longitude and latitude] On the other hand you may use the information provided on my pages to FIGHT any illegal activity, be it performed by private parties or by one of the aforementioned legal entities :-) All instructions, hints and tips are provided as-they-are and are not supported, neither by third parties, nor by any software producer I know of, nor by the owners or operators of this web site, nor by anyone else for that matter.  Finally, I am of course aware of the limits and incompleteness of all solutions, techniques, hints and advice proposed here. For crying out loud, this is all fairly new stuff, we don't even have an established terminology for this field, what the hell d'you pretend?

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