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I get a couple of items of spam a week, which are "bounced" from my hosts as "undeliverable":
Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients And the recipient is one of my old email addresses on a previous domain. I've wondered exactly what is going on, but haven't worried too much because none of the message send logs show any sign of the message, the passwords are unchanged, and changing them doesn't do anything. Until today when I had a thought: what if it's one of the forwarded accounts?
I have a couple of accounts which are there to soak up rubbish: DontSendMeAnyCr*p@MyDomain.com (forwarding: direct to bin) and so forth, and I have a couple with forwarding enabled to send them through to my primary address: Webmaster@MyDomain.com, Sales@MyDomain.com and suchlike. So I had a trawl through the accounts - which is a slow process as I have to open each one in turn, and they won't open in a new tab either.
And sure enough there is just one email address that is forwarded to that email. And it's one of my "specific purpose" email address - ones I create for a specific company to reply to so they don't fill me with drivel if they sell it: I can just close the email account and say "stuff you".
Who is it? UK TV Licencing...now, how did a spammer selling Gentleman Enlargement Products get that one? 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Certainly don't want any unlicenced TVs wandering around the UK, do we?
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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They have men in vans driving round to prevent it!
Or at least, they used to - in the days of CRTs when you could detect a TV from the coil emissions (and even tell what was being watched). With modern LCDs I suspect Detector Vans have been replaced with a computer list of unlicensed premises and a man with a telephone headset.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Exactly, the Vans got withdrew when LCR power supplies were commonly used in other things (such as microwaves) and the snobby 'I haven't got a TV' types all started to computer monitors. A friend of my Dads was very snobby about TV's and only bought a Mono (amber) Monitor and had the detector van turn up outside his house at least once a month...Jobsite haven't checked that one yet!
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Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients.
Mostly because they didn't read it.
Or their cell phone signal in America was a single bar, unlike those in Afghan caves that can upload video.
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Anyone else keep their profile pics semi up-to-date up in this joint? I see some that have been the same for over a decade or are cartoons. That's no fun. People wanna see what people look like. Nothing says "I never get out of the house" like having no picture to show for yourself. Where they be hiding?
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: Nothing says "I never get out of the house" like having no picture to show for yourself
I disagree. I think for a few people at least, showing your own face confirms any suspicions that they never get out of the house.
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Or they do not want to be recognized. 
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Anthony Mushrow wrote: I think for a few people at least, showing your own face confirms any suspicions that they never get out of the house.
Good point. 
Jeremy Falcon
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Welcome to YouCP. You have 1 message and 2,382,167 friend requests.
(Hey! Where's the number of subscribers count gone?)
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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To answer your question... no.
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I still have my Les Paul, and it looks the same. No need for a new profile pic. 
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Not really. I rarely, if ever, look at anyone else's picture and presume that others are just as disinterested in me though I will confess that my profile picture is really me.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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mark merrens wrote: presume that others are just as disinterested in me
How can you be disinterested in people? They're useful and stuff.
Jeremy Falcon
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Not really what I said, at all.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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You said "just as", it's implied yo.
Jeremy Falcon
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I was referring to the pictures, not the people!
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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Same difference man. Can't really be interested in people and not be interesting in seeing them.
Jeremy Falcon
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You may know and even like some of these people.
People [^]
but do you really want to see their pictures?
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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I haven't changed my profile picture in nearly a decade, that's true. But I haven't changed in my appearance for nearly a decade and I still wear the same shirt and tie (I'll need to wash it soon).
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Forogar wrote: But I haven't changed in my appearance for nearly a decade and I still wear the same shirt and tie (I'll need to wash it soon).
Not even a new tie?
Jeremy Falcon
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Washing is overrated... 
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Mine dates from the last time I was considered "outstanding in my field" (I may have misunderstood)
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: Mine dates from the last time I was considered "outstanding in my field" (I may have misunderstood)
Not sure what you mean, but I saw it and I like it (in a guy way). Just more fun making the Net a bit less anonymous ya know, like how our grandparents used to talk - to real people.
Jeremy Falcon
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