Freelancers Forum Messages on Thursday January 12th 2006
Re: FN-FORUM: Winning the Lottery - Advice
date posted 12th January 2006 23:28
All I wonder about and feel sorry for is the person who should of got the
money but hasn't - how would you feel - you would want them to give it back
if it was on the other foot.
Whoevers mistake i...
Re: FN-FORUM: Winning the Lottery - Advice
date posted 12th January 2006 23:00
Hi Rich,
just on the surface, what's fair? If someone accidently gives you =20
something it's not unreasonable for them to ask for it back?
On 12 Jan 2006, at 19:39, Richard Quick wrote:
>
> Befo...
Re: FN-FORUM: Winning the Lottery - Advice
date posted 12th January 2006 22:53
The fault clearly lays with the person who announced the original result. If
that two was a mistake, and there was no negligence or deliberate intent
(mens rea) the it's bad luck on the true winner. A...
Re: FN-FORUM: Advertising Bastards
date posted 12th January 2006 22:47
Anthony Cartmell wrote:
> I've just been re-reading "The Peter Principle"
> [http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0285631764/wwwfonancouk]
> again. You know, the book that says "In any hierarchica...
Re: FN-FORUM: Winning the Lottery - Advice
date posted 12th January 2006 22:42
On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Richard Quick wrote:
> Any suggestions for how he should handle it? Anyone got any ideas =20
> about the law that applies here (given that there's prob no lawyers =20
> on this...
RE: FN-FORUM: Alternative Awards (OT)
date posted 12th January 2006 21:37
For fear of getting bored in Luxembourg and as part of a program of
things we (Design Club) want to run over the next year, we are hoping to
organise the Alternative Design & Communication Awards in a...
Re: FN-FORUM: Transparent Images
date posted 12th January 2006 21:07
haven't used it in ages/go it installed but it should just be set to
'with transparency' - *without* a matte unless you're anti-aliasing to a
solid bg colour - the the compression palette
of use 24b...
FN-FORUM: Winning the Lottery - Advice
date posted 12th January 2006 19:08
Before Xmas my brother won an in firm lottery thing at the company =20
where he works - =A3500 - pretty handy before christmas you'd agree.
On Monday (9th of Jan) he went into work and they reckoned...
Re: FN-FORUM: Advertising Bastards
date posted 12th January 2006 18:11
> But was that because you were too competent or because the existing
> organisation already had the top spots booked? j/k :)
Both :)
Anthony
--
www.fonant.com - hand-crafted web sites...
FN-FORUM: Transparent Images
date posted 12th January 2006 17:26
Hi,
How do I export a PNG image from fireworks MX so that where the
background is transparent it actually appears transparent. I've tried
setting the Matte value to white or black and I then get blee...
FN-FORUM: a light look at design?
date posted 12th January 2006 17:22
Apologies now to any James Blunt fans ...
http://eclectech.co.uk/gullible.php
Rant
I wouldn't mind him if he didn't go on about being an ex 'soldier' and
sending the likes of Richard & Judy all gooe...
Re: FN-FORUM: Advice for bulk emailing
date posted 12th January 2006 13:20
may i add to the thread...
http://www.eboxsoftware.co.uk
My colleague developed their mail engine a few years ago. Not sure about
their pricing but if anyone needs to send bulk emails without the...
RE: FN-FORUM: Advertising Bastards
date posted 12th January 2006 13:18
[EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> I've just been re-reading "The Peter Principle"
> [http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0285631764/wwwfonanc ouk]
> again. You know, the book that says "In any hierarchica...
RE: FN-FORUM: Advice for bulk emailing
date posted 12th January 2006 13:01
On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Andy Macnaughton-Jones wrote:
> address may be duff or that there is an issue. We could then go one step =
> futher and have a return address for bounced mail from the server, us...
Re: FN-FORUM: Advertising Bastards
date posted 12th January 2006 12:59
I've just been re-reading "The Peter Principle"
[http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0285631764/wwwfonancouk] again.
You know, the book that says "In any hierarchical organisation, employees...
Re: FN-FORUM: Advice for bulk emailing
date posted 12th January 2006 12:54
> web based send methods are not relaible at all there is no guarantee any
> of the emaisl get sent.
Eh? There is no difference from sending e-mail from a computer in a
datacentre connected to the...
Re: FN-FORUM: Advice for bulk emailing
date posted 12th January 2006 12:49
> BCC is not a good idea as the recipients e-mail address doesn't appear in
> the TO address field of the e-mail.
> Looks like spam !
Yes, but it's quick and free :)
Anthony
--
www.fonant.com - han...
FN-FORUM: Advertising Bastards
date posted 12th January 2006 11:47
Hi Laura
I feel your pain... and it's just not the advertising sector
Same thing happen to me 3 years ago. I'm a designer for web, I worked for a
HR company, one day I was pulled into the boardroo...
RE: FN-FORUM: Link checking
date posted 12th January 2006 11:18
Hi all
Why not try these, loads of useful stuff.
http://www.webmaster-toolkit.com/link-popularity-checker.shtml
All the best
Dave
David J MacKillican
http://www.djmwebservices.com your business...
Re: FN-FORUM: Link checking
date posted 12th January 2006 11:11
Ian Copeland [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know where I can get a tutorial or something about checking
> reciprocal links?
> I've swapped links with other sites before and if the s...
FN-FORUM: Link checking
date posted 12th January 2006 11:06
Hi,
Does anyone know where I can get a tutorial or something about checking
reciprocal links?
I've swapped links with other sites before and if the server goes down, for
example, I get an email sayin...
FN-FORUM: Anyone freelancing just with MS Office skills?
date posted 12th January 2006 10:30
Hi,
Does anyone here freelance exclusively with MS Office, or nearly
exclusively? ie do you get oodles of work creating solutions based =
around
Excel, Word, Outlook, Access, etc.
I=92ve got to a cr...
RE: FN-FORUM: Advice for bulk emailing
date posted 12th January 2006 10:11
[EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> if your server times out for one of a 1,000,000 reasons how
> do you know where the script was at for sending? where would you
> start the routine from?
>
You are failing...
RE: FN-FORUM: Advice for bulk emailing
date posted 12th January 2006 10:09
Because it's all stored in the database. Each send is handled
individually so we know what we've sent and when we've sent it.=20
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RE: FN-FORUM: Advice for bulk emailing
date posted 12th January 2006 09:51
if your server times out for one of a 1,000,000 reasons how do you know
where the script was at for sending? where would you start the routine
from?
>
> Depends how it's written. Our mail handler...
RE: FN-FORUM: Advice for bulk emailing
date posted 12th January 2006 09:43
Depends how it's written. Our mail handler works by creating entries =
into a DB table and using Jmail to send out individual emails - so =
they're all "proper To", not BCC. If Jmail generates an erro...
RE: FN-FORUM: Advice for bulk emailing
date posted 12th January 2006 09:40
I must be missing something here.
I did some mailings scripts for a client last year that filtered out bad
emails, allowed mailing lists to be uploaded & separated into different
lists etc.,
It just...
Re: FN-FORUM: Advice for bulk emailing
date posted 12th January 2006 09:38
I'd strongly suggest you look at the following 2 sites which will=20
answer all your questions and solve your problems!
http://www.mailchimp.com/ &
http://search.constantcontact.com/index.jsp:
Thos...
Re: FN-FORUM: Advice for bulk emailing
date posted 12th January 2006 09:34
web based send methods are not relaible at all there is no guarantee any
of the emaisl get sent. Server time outs and comnnections cause more
problems than its worth.
>
>> I then grouped these int...
Re: FN-FORUM: Advice for bulk emailing
date posted 12th January 2006 09:31
you're still not wasting time looking to send out a clients list of 50
emails?
Andrew
>
> BCC is not a good idea as the recipients e-mail address doesn't appear in
> the TO address field of the e-m...
Re: FN-FORUM: Advice for bulk emailing
date posted 12th January 2006 09:26
BCC is not a good idea as the recipients e-mail address doesn't appear in
the TO address field of the e-mail.
Looks like spam !
Unfortunatly I can't recomend a way of doing this, I have been looking...
RE: FN-FORUM: Site Check!
date posted 12th January 2006 08:26
I can hardly see the login boxes, border round the login boxes, small text
on the left side and the copyright stuff at the bottom of the page if that
helps.
Apart from that it looks really nice.
Ia...
Re: FN-FORUM: Advertising Bastards
date posted 12th January 2006 00:37
yep - I know prior to a yar - you haven't a leg to stand out which is why
everyone who has been there less than a year has been given the ultimatum.
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Re: FN-FORUM: Advertising Bastards
date posted 12th January 2006 00:31
Well done - what shoud infringe you from working from clients that they will
probably loose anyway due to loss from their inflatable fees.
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From: "Richard Quick" [EMAIL RE...
Re: FN-FORUM: Advertising Bastards
date posted 12th January 2006 00:29
----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin Rainsforth" [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 5:41 AM
Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: Advertising Bastards
>
> At 11:59 am +00...
Re: FN-FORUM: Advertising Bastards
date posted 12th January 2006 00:23
----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin Rainsforth" [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 6:22 AM
Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: Advertising Bastards
Hi Laura,
Sorry to...
Re: FN-FORUM: Advertising Bastards
date posted 12th January 2006 00:18
who cares...if they are - I haven't mentioned a company nor a name.
and if they are registered on here and get forums - who cares again - I
wasn't aloud to ask for advise round the office so what is...
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