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  • Spam Wars – Success!

    Break out the champagne everyone, Paul O’Brien, from Intellimailer has told the Information Commissioner’s Office that they will be sending no more spam. The ICO is happy that intellimailer have been educated in the correct meaning and interpretation of the law and will send no more spam, ever.

    Fantastic!

    If you receive any spam from intellimailer, report them to the ICO (I have a contact there who has the case history, email me if you’d like the information) and please let me (and any readers) know how you get on.

    By the way, the full list of domain names they used to send spam to me has grown a bit, so here it is in full:

    intrer11.co.uk
    intrer12.co.uk
    intrer14.co.uk
    intrer15.co.uk
    (and checking whois, they’re continuing to buy domains starting intrer for some reason. Note they haven’t registered intrer13 yet, guess they’re superstitious!)
    intellimailer.org.uk
    int-mailer.org.uk
    emaileronline.co.uk
    int-mailer-uk.co.uk
    ukmailing-co.co.uk
    uk-mailing-co.co.uk
    emailer-online.co.uk
    the-intelligentmailer.co.uk
    kt8.com
    mailing-software-uk.co.uk

  • Spam wars update

    I bet you’re all wondering what’s happening about the intellimailer spam? Well, having ignored my requests that they stop spamming me, they are now ignoring the requests of the Information Commissioner. They did at least respond to the ICO to say they would remove my from the database, except they didnt remove me and continue to send the spam.

    The ICO has all the evidence, I’m waiting to hear from them what their next step will be – I’ll post here when I’ve heard and have time.

  • Sharpe's Battle (Bernard Cornwell)

    One day, I’m going to be writing my last review of a Sharpe book. Until then, I’ve got more great reading to look forward to! Sharpe begins the story being a very naughty boy (executing enemy prisoners) and spends the rest of it trying to prove himself worthy in battle. I’m not spoiling anything by saying he manages to do this (after all, we already know he survives post Waterloo) but as always he does this in a very innovative way despite being attacked on all sides by the enemy (French) and the enemy within (French agents behind the Allied lines). My favourite part is the end as always, because then I get to read Bernard Cornwell’s comments on how the story differed from history and the liberties he was able to take as an author of fiction. You can’t help but have both respect and sympathy for any solider when you realise the hell they all went through.

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