Freelancers Forum Messages on Saturday March 11th 2006
Re: FN-FORUM: Telegraph Marketing - anyone else?
date posted 11th March 2006 21:23
> Telegraph marketing got quite shirty after a while so I just hung up on
> them. How come your add was £165 when mine was £199?
The directory was "delayed by a month", so they were offering a...
Re: FN-FORUM: List handling base64 messages?
date posted 11th March 2006 21:16
> Apparently, some ISPs in countries with many spammers have added every ip
> address in their blocks to their SPF records so the spammers can
> continue...
That doesn't help though, as they can't m...
Re: FN-FORUM: Telegraph Marketing - anyone else?
date posted 11th March 2006 16:57
It's a scam. There'll be some small print telling you that you can cancel in
7 days or whatever. Send a letter saying that you did not order it and don't
want it. Threaten the with Data protection co...
Re: FN-FORUM: OutLook Postoffice + Free Ebay Style
date posted 11th March 2006 16:51
Outlook doesn't have a postoffice.
If you mean the really, really basic POP3 service on Windows server 2003,
it's POP3, not IMAP so it doesn't really store messages, they go to the
POP3 client. You...
Re: FN-FORUM: List handling base64 messages?
date posted 11th March 2006 16:30
Apparently, some ISPs in countries with many spammers have added every ip
address in their blocks to their SPF records so the spammers can
continue...
Could be an "urban" myth, of course.
++++++++...
Re: FN-FORUM: Acceptable Terms?
date posted 11th March 2006 16:26
I wouldn't accept payment 30 days after payment has been received from
client - if client doesn't pay, then you don't get paid. Other company's
poor credit control should not be my problem. If I have...
Re: FN-FORUM: Telegraph Marketing - anyone else?
date posted 11th March 2006 12:18
I'm developing sites for several journalists. One of them, at
www.them-o.com, contains a definition of fraud (in the left bar). It seems
from what folk are saying there may be some fraud involved.
I'...
Re: FN-FORUM: Telegraph Marketing - anyone else?
date posted 11th March 2006 11:52
I've dealt with Telegraph Marketing three times now - all on behalf of the
same client. Although the client does do a lot of local advertising, all the
artwork is done by me, so Telegraph saying they...
Re: FN-FORUM: Telegraph Marketing - anyone else?
date posted 11th March 2006 10:58
Two of the things I do to such people is...
1) "Could I take your name please?"
That results in 1/2 of them hanging up, then if they don't
2) "Would it be OK if I record this call for security purp...
RE: FN-FORUM: Telegraph Marketing - anyone else?
date posted 11th March 2006 10:45
I got the same call from two different companies this week. Both =
claimed
that I had agreed to pay for advertising last year.
One of them was a charity. On Friday I got a call from someone claimin...
RE: FN-FORUM: Free Ebay Style
date posted 11th March 2006 10:41
I use ebay quite a lot.
Their 'protection' is a joke. There is square trade, which will do next to
nothing to aid either the buyer or seller, and if the issue is resolved in
your favour, any negati...
Re: FN-FORUM: Windows XP Firewall
date posted 11th March 2006 10:27
Hi Matt,
> From winxp sp2, windows will tell you when a program is attempting to listen
> on a network interface, and ask if you want to allow it to do so
OK, useful to know.
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Cheers,
Julia...
RE: FN-FORUM: Acceptable Terms?
date posted 11th March 2006 10:11
Depends whether you want to sell your soul for =A325 an hour, sounds =
like an
employee contract to me. But then again it's not enforceable, unless =
they
file the code under copyright. Also depends w...
Re: FN-FORUM: Windows XP Firewall
date posted 11th March 2006 09:57
Hi [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Depends whether you connect to the networks outside your own internal
> firewall,
I've bolted down the firewall so very little is allowed through it, only
standard http, smtp...
RE: FN-FORUM: RE: Building a newsletter management system
date posted 11th March 2006 09:52
This is what SendStudio already does, and the FCKEditor is built into the
code.
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Re: FN-FORUM: Telegraph Marketing - anyone else?
date posted 11th March 2006 09:52
> I recently received two phone calls from "Telegraph Marketing" saying=20=
> that I'd agreed last October to advertise in their directory the "TM=20=
> Community Guide". I don't remember doing this...
RE: FN-FORUM: Telegraph Marketing - anyone else?
date posted 11th March 2006 09:50
Yes had the same from business internet directory, they called me I said
send me some information to get rid of them, next thing I received was =
an
invoice.
Here's what I discovered;
1. According to...
RE: FN-FORUM: Windows XP Firewall
date posted 11th March 2006 09:38
I hear that the firewall in Vista is more intuitive as per Andy's comment,
hoping that XP SP3 will also cover hiberate mode for RAM 1GB+. SP2 did some
real good, but still some holes.
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FN-FORUM: Telegraph Marketing - anyone else?
date posted 11th March 2006 09:30
I recently received two phone calls from "Telegraph Marketing" saying that
I'd agreed last October to advertise in their directory the "TM Community
Guide". I don't remember doing this.
I now hav...
Re: FN-FORUM: Free Ebay Style
date posted 11th March 2006 09:06
PS. you will more probable than not find that the majority of sellers on
qextra.com are sellers on ebay anyway! They are just pissed off with the
ebay charging structure!
Andrew
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http://www.punt...
Re: FN-FORUM: Free Ebay Style
date posted 11th March 2006 09:02
Hi Matt, yes I agree with you but this is just clever marketing from ebay.
There was a special report on last week if not the week before (I think
is was Treveor McDonut) about the Ebay problems that...
Re: FN-FORUM: Free Ebay Style
date posted 11th March 2006 08:30
On Saturday 11 March 2006 08:59, PuntersPower wrote:
> there is a newdesign beng but in pace and that will be ready in a couple
> of weeks apparently! You are right people are usewd to ebay and they...
FN-FORUM: Free Ebay Style
date posted 11th March 2006 08:16
there is a newdesign beng but in pace and that will be ready in a couple
of weeks apparently! You are right people are usewd to ebay and they are
used to paying them 'small granted' but still stupid...
RE: FN-FORUM: Windows XP Firewall
date posted 11th March 2006 01:00
Julian Voelcker wrote:
> The only thing is that I do like the way that it reports to me any
> program attemting to access the internet from my machine.
>
> Does the Windows firewall do a similar sor...
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