Yes, did you read the story on here about someone getting telephoned "three times" from someone who was selling advertising for Lycos! I just wondered if that chap got any extra sales for being so persistent. Surely it would just annoy so many people that if they had any interest at all it would have evaporated.
BUSINESS!!!!!
Ok ok mild humour attack..and slight exageration..
No, the wheel was invented by an Australian in 2001.
It is intended to encourage me to buy something, so it is marketing in my book.
Well I suppose you could say that flyposting is "marketing" as well, ok I suppose it is as you put it in such simplistic terms, I suppose I was considering marketing something better than that! I suppose I was placing marketing in the boundaries of what most people call "decent and acceptable practice" I suppose I was not wishing to give "spam" credibility, as it really really costs businesses alot of money. I have read that people have to deal with so much spam at work..surprisingly...the strange thing is..I don't get so much spam..and I have used this email address for ages on these newsnet forums.... Unlike others, I don't bother to put some kind of anti email harvesting address..so only get about two or three per day and those mainly go into my bulk folder mail...yahoo are quite good like that.
Not really. The Australian patent office really did grant a patent for the wheel.
It won the IGNoble prize for technology.
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Peter, are you really an accountant as you claim to be? If your a real accountant then why are you not having your own office? Why do you work from home? I thought most good accountants had their own office away from their home with a professional image! Or are you a book keeper with ideas above his station?
I did see the site actually, that is rather good..lol
2 or 3 per day?
Maybe spammers don't take yahoo addresses seriously either.
I get more than 100 spams a day and I use McAfee SpamKiller to keep them out of my inbox. This means that most urgent emails can be dealt with quickly and then I can review the spam folder to see if there is anything useful. Glancing through the headers and addresses can be done pretty quickly since the headers are always designed to make it look like something interesting and a genuine email is more sensible.
Peter Saxton from London snipped-for-privacy@petersaxton.co.uk
Thanks for making that point. It sums up what people like you are like. Desperate to have an image but having no substance.
I've actually just had an extension built on the side of my house. Now I have a lovely big office with brand new filing cabinets and a shower room/toilet ensuite. I can come down stairs from our new bedroom which is above our storage rooms and walk across our tiny "courtyard" to my office which overlooks our garden. I can see our cats playing in the garden or can see the wife and daughter relaxing. I can work whenever I want or stop work whenever I want. If I want a few hundred extra quid I put a few more hours in without any hassle.
I visited a friend who had an office at the bottom of his garden but for investment reasons he sold his house and is now operating out of serviced offices. He's laid out his office pretty well but it's a little cramped and he has to get dressed and travel to his office in the morning and go to the shops for something to eat or drink.
What was your question? "Why do you work from home?" I'm sure I can think of a reason if you let me have a little time!
Peter Saxton from London snipped-for-privacy@petersaxton.co.uk
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Well, one hundred is a huge amount, I have heard that those systems I think similar to spam kill are quite good. Where an unknown source has to "confirm" they've sent them.
Given how the law is being implimented soon it would seem easy to stop the problem by taking spammers to court. If other countires didnt take action against spammers then their ability to access the internet could be curtailed.
Peter Saxton from London snipped-for-privacy@petersaxton.co.uk
Of course flyposting is marketing. What else could it be?
Ok we agree then. I consider it not good marketing and I believe it is illegal. So if you include illegal activities as marketing then you could call selling drugs marketing as well, if people ask others to pass on the word then that is also a type of marketing is it not accordingly.
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