Spammed by Screwfix?

Did you have a traumatic childhood?

Do you listen to advice? Might help.

Hey, he's doing really well - that's two kills in a single thread!

Indeed. In fact, Screwfix *will* stop if asked, which distinguishes them from our friends with the small manhoods.

That is the whole problem and shows how difficult it is to comply with this legislation and how open to abuse it is. I would be inclined to say snipped-for-privacy@hotmail.com is private, snipped-for-privacy@bloggsindustries.co.uk most likely business, but snipped-for-privacy@bloggs.co.uk could be anything. I think the draft legislation had something to the effect of business addresses can be emailed, but not if that email address was personally identifiable but I think that has been dropped in the final legislation. That would basically mean the only usable email addresses would be the sales@... and info@... type addresses which are no use at all to market to.

In most instances, if the company has a postal address for the customer which mentions a company name, they can be considered legitmate business customers no matter what the email address - a great number of my company's customers use aol, freeserve, hotmail etc as their business emails eg snipped-for-privacy@hotmail.com. If the company peronsalises the emails they send and includes that company name in the email (something like, Hi Fred, As one of our valued customers we thought Bloggs Industries would love to hear about...) then they would appear to be trying to ensure that they only reach legitimate business customers.

Phil

Well, he seems resolute not to Accept Clue.

Lemmings come to mind.

Mike P.

Hey aren't you the same Toby that referred to the originator of this post as "I quote"

So that's acceptable????

Mike P.

Quoting - good boy.

Well said Mike. Perhaps one day they'll realise that the thread title, OE and top posting a reply only, is 98% of today's world for efficient answers to a diy question!! If you really want to see the effects of moronic newsnet bottom posting just try looking a long thread up on Google. Generally Lemmings come to mind.

He wishes!! Capitol

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Another clueless twit? Come out of hibernation early have we?

I see your still time & space wasting then. Mike P.

In article , Mike P writes

You really ought to learn how to post to usenet properly, or you'll end up in everyone's killfile.

BTW, *plonk*

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The mark of a true f****it.

http://www.f*****ts.info/

It might also illegal. About the one thing that the Data Protection Act does actually forbid is the use of personal data for Direct Marketing when you have informed the company concerned not to use the data for that purpose.

1. - (1) An individual is entitled at any time by notice in writing to a data controller to require the data controller at the end of such period as is reasonable in the circumstances to cease, or not to begin, processing for the purposes of direct marketing personal data in respect of which he is the data subject.

(3) In this section "direct marketing" means the communication (by whatever means) of any advertising or marketing material which is directed to particular individuals.

The crucial question is what "such period as is reasonable in the circumstances" might mean. And you can't pick and choose about the type of direct marketing it would seem. If you're happy to receive catalogues from them then you're accepting that they can use the data for direct marketing.

Chris Ward.

Excuse me, is this rattle yours?

Feckin' thing nearly brained me.

This MacNamara - you don't think he's the leader of the band, do you?

You have come out with this 98% statistic before, and it has been pointed out that it is wrong. Of the current (the last month) posts to uk.d-i-y: OE is used by 41% of posters (44% of posts) Of the OE followup posts, 8% are posted with no context, 6% are topposted compared with 4% and 2% for posters using other software.

So what about xxx.demon.co.uk domains? Demon is most certainly a business but their customers may or may not be businesses.

This 'business'/'individual' distinction is simply a non-starter.