Contacting Me

Here is how you can contact me.

• The most probable way for you netsurfer to contact me is to send me e-mail.
  • My regular address is: fahree@gmail.com.
  • If this doesn't work (it should), and only then, try one of my current alternate addresses: fare@samaris.tunes.org (preferred for big files), fare@free.fr. My other working e-mail addresses are redirected to one of the former.
  • If you'd like to send me big files (>16KB), pick whichever alternate address matches the purpose best, and send me a notification at my usual address.
  • If you'd like to send me Unsollicited Commercial E-mail (aka spam), be warned that I'll fine you a $500 fee for archiving purposes.
  • Valid (redirected) e-mail addresses of mine include: fare@tunes.org, fare@bespin.org, fare@dang-vu.org, fare@wiw.org, fare@quatramaran.ens.fr.
  • Former e-mail addresses of mine that are no more valid include the following and variants thereof: rideau@clipper.ens.fr, francoisrene.rideau@francetelecom.fr, or rideaufr@enst.fr.

• The second most reliable way to reach me ought to be my mobile phone. When I'm in France, I use this number: +33 (0) 610 976 921. When I'm in Luxembourg or abroad, my number is +352 061 LIBRES (that's 061 542 737 to you). Any other number isn't valid anymore as of october 2004. You can send me SMS messages. I know no free SMS services anymore.

• Next, the most reliable way to contact me is to write to me.
  • The permanent address to which to write to me is at my parents':

    	François-René Bân RIDEAU DANG-VU
    	6, rue Augustin Thierry 75019 Paris FRANCE
    

    Their phone number is: (+33) (0)142026735

    If you go there, take the subway to metro station "Place des Fêtes" (lines 11 and 7bis; also bus lines 60 and 48; you can come by car, but you'll have a hard time finding a legit parking place nearby). Out of the first metro exit (to your left), you'll see a pyramid on the center of the place des fêtes, and a bakery (to your right). entry to Number 6 is just next to the rear entry of the bakery, next to the optician and video shop (beware there is also number 8 there, next to the café). No need to cross any street; just walk along the building, under the covered walkway. When at the interphone, compose the door number (31), and ring with bell symbol (on top of the number board). Repeat if there is no answer within 15 seconds, since the interphone and the door unlocking button are automatically disabled after this time interval.

  • Sometimes during holidays, I am sometimes with my parents in Britanny, at the following address:

    	François-René Bân RIDEAU DANG-VU
    	La Saudrais 22550 Henanbihen FRANCE
    

    The phone number is: (+33) (0)296340464.
  • While working in Luxembourg, I am living at the following address:

    	François-René RIDEAU
    	22, boulevard de la Foire
    	L-1528 Luxembourg
    

    But don't consider it a permanent address. ICBM address: Latitude 49° 36' 56" N, longitude 6° 7' 22" E.

• In case I happen to be in IRC, you might want to join channel #Tunes or #lisp on irc.freenode.net (occasionally #linpeople), where I sometimes login as Fare. I also used to login on channel #Linux on Undernet. I usually use Fare as an irc nickname, but when someone else takes it, I use FareWell or FareTower or even [Atlas] instead.

• For instant messages, my MSN Messenger account (preferred) is TelemachusSneezed@hotmail.com; my Yahoo! ID is faretunes; my AIM logon is FareTUNES; my ICQ UIN (mostly obsolete) is 15017400. The software I use, GAIM (GNOME), Kopete (KDE) and Trillian (Windows) can usually handle all of these (except when one of the networks intentionally messes up the protocol).

• I'm sometimes on Skype. My login is fahree.

• If you happen to stay in the same place as I,
  • Here are a few pictures of me, so you can recognize me if/when we meet: 1, 2, 3, 4.
  • You can then use my surname "Faré",
    and call me "tu" (I have nothing against "vous" if you prefer).
  • My vietnamese name is Ðặng-Vũ Bân but I can't speak vietnamese so well (except for a few words).

• If you want privacy in exchanging data with me, or if you want to verify my signature on some document, you can find my current GnuPG (1024 bit DSA/ElGamal) public key behind this link: http://fare.tunes.org/fare-gpg-key.asc -- Any earlier key is not used anymore, and shouldn't be trusted. In particular, do not use Key#1.
• My short sigblock is just ``#f'' (or ``#f Ð''), and my long sigblock (often followed by a random or hand-picked fortune cookie) is:

  [ François-René ÐVB Rideau | Reflection&Cybernethics | http://fare.tunes.org ]
  [  TUNES project for a Free Reflective Computing System  | http://tunes.org  ]
  

• In case you can't finger fare@tunes.org (and because it messes up with extended latin1 characters), I've hereby made my .plan available on the web.