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Funny, having lived 25 years overseas on return it never occurred to me to look for an NHS dentist. And in the intervening 30 years that continues to be the case.

I used an NHS dentist once before I originally left the country, for a filling. He didn't appear to believe in anaesthesia. Interestingly, neither did the Swiss dentists that I went to. It's for softies, apparently.

My US dentist was a natty dresser. Very showbiz, with the moustache to go with it. He appeared to have changed hygienist every time I went, but to always be in a relationship with the current one. Very Palo Alto.

I once had a dentist who believed that the needle had to be inserted in one side of the gum, go through the root of the tooth and come out the other side of the gum :) I could still feel the pain from the needle months after the dumbness went away :)

The dentist afterwards first used a swab to numb the point of needle entry before just scratching the surface of the gum.

My current private dentist has an equal good needle technique.

I do wonder if some peoples' fear of dentists comes from having been treated by the first type of dentist.

or not having anaesthetic at all. It's a modern invention and very welcome. My present dentiat is brillinat - I don't feel a thing.

In message snipped-for-privacy@brattleho.plus.com>, Ian Jackson snipped-for-privacy@g3ohx.co.uk> writes

(Turnpike)

Same here! I did try again fairly recently, but only managed to kill all incoming mail!

I can remember as a kid sitting in the dentist's chair while he ground away at a tooth with one of those slow-speed cord-driven drills. Surprisingly, it has not left me with a fear of dentists.

Mine probably, I have chosen to have fillings replaced without injections. Current NHS dentist seems much better at injections than the one I had 40 years ago, but not as good as the private dentist I had in Budapest ...

In message <XYXV$ snipped-for-privacy@marfordfarm.demon.co.uk>, at 10:40:53 on Mon, 1 Jul 2024, Tim Lamb snipped-for-privacy@marfordfarm.demon.co.uk> remarked:

But it's fairly easy to get a filter-app for a PC and have that collect the mail, then Turnpike can collect the sanitised results. I use to do that but frankly the filters ISPs use means all the really dodgy stuff never gets anywhere near you.

In message <lTXWJW6RtUhmFA$ snipped-for-privacy@perry.uk, Roland Perry snipped-for-privacy@perry.co.uk> writes

To the extent that I don't use filters on email with Turnpike. I still get a few spams (handful per month at the outside), but trying to write rules that cover those would be all but impossible.

Filters on Usenet on the other hand ...

Adrian

I used to do that when I was on an ISP that gave me a subdomain.

Finally I started getting lots of spam using an email address that I had supplied to one company only.

When I contacted them to tell them their databases had been hacked they denied it could possibly have been anything to do with them.

Andy

I had much the same. And one place (an authors' society) objected to the use of their name in the email address, but were fine once I explained it.

I have unlimited email addresses because I run my own mail server.

I also have several domains and as many subdomains as I want (own DNS) but I only use a few.

"Email subadressing" may help: fred+bah@domain being equivalent to but distinct from fred@domain ...

Never tried it myself, though wikipedia says gmail supports it, so likely to be not-completely-obscure.

Thomas Prufer

I had Aliexpress reject aliexpress@... but they couldn't reject ali@...

Sometimes customer service people on the phone get confused about it, but it's rare that I have to give out an email address over the phone these days.

Some websites complain about the '+' in the address, even though it's a valid character. Better mail hosts have configured the character to something less objectionable like '-' or '_' to avoid that problem.

Theo