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    HAB's big business tips

    When you have an e-mail address on sales literature, web site, etc. it is a good idea to have your e-mail server recognise it and send it to a monitored destination.
    How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror.

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    #2
    Originally posted by HairyArsedBloke View Post
    When you have an e-mail address on sales literature, web site, etc. it is a good idea to have your e-mail server recognise it and send it to a monitored destination.
    /dev/null?

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      #3
      Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
      None of that muck here.

      When I changed things around for this new server and set up MS Exchange again, I forgot to add in a few e-mail addresses. The thing is, that was nearly a year ago.
      How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror.

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        #4
        Originally posted by NickFitz View Post

        It's one way of dealing with spam.

        On a similar theme I have a facebook profile I never visit, a mobile phone I never switch on, and an address I'm never at.

        I also ignore the doorbell until the third press, never answer 'unknown' phone calls on the mobile I do have switched on, and don't have a phone plugged into the landline I only use for broadband.

        Any other tips?
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          #5
          Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
          We've got a drawer in our house that does the same thing.

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            #6
            Originally posted by Durbs View Post
            We've got a drawer in our house that does the same thing.
            Probably riddled with wood-wormholes.
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              #7
              Originally posted by PAH View Post
              Any other tips?
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                #8
                Originally posted by PAH View Post
                Probably riddled with wood-wormholes.
                Wood-wormholes?

                Do they take you to Narnia?
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                  #9
                  Originally posted by PAH View Post
                  It's one way of dealing with spam.

                  On a similar theme I have a facebook profile I never visit, a mobile phone I never switch on, and an address I'm never at.

                  I also ignore the doorbell until the third press, never answer 'unknown' phone calls on the mobile I do have switched on, and don't have a phone plugged into the landline I only use for broadband.

                  Any other tips?
                  Oddly enough I know several contractors who do the same. They don't get it, the tax people will always catch up with you.
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                    #10
                    Originally posted by threaded View Post
                    They don't get it, the tax people will always catch up with you.
                    It's not HMRC () I'm ignoring, just the plebs who think I want to buy whatever crap they're peddling.

                    Be they agents (don't call me, I'll call you ), call centres, door-to-door, pikies, or people I used to know and now couldn't care less about, the message is one and the same: FOAD!
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