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An iPad is a very cheap prize but with a huge fan pool.
OK, it might eventually be expensive for a single individual, but for a company it's peanuts.
If to that you add a dumb game, the word will spread and chances are you'll mine a lot of emails 
It's never about the quality of the responses, is about the amount!!
This is way cheaper than any other way to publicize something or just gather contacts.
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You probably right...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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AlexCode wrote: If to that you add a dumb game, the word will spread and chances are you'll mine a lot of emails
It's never about the quality of the responses, is about the amount!!
It's not about getting the email addresses, although lots of online competitions do exist for that sole purpose, but to increase web traffic and ad revenue.
But if someone is going to object to being a facilitator to that then pretty much every single link posted will get reported.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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I've been using x-notifier. It works fine for email but the inconvenience is that it displays ads whenever a web page is visited. The ads often covers part of content and makes it hard to read.
TOMZ_KV
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Have you tried using AdBlock to get rid of the ads? I've found that works pretty well, not sure whether or not it would work for that though.
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If you write your own rules you can block arbitrary crap content in the browser. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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None; the idea of mail is that I do not get notified. There's IM for immediate disturbances.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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I thought the idea of Email was to send and receive Email... ?
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Yes, as the name implies; electronic mail, not an immediate message.
You could ask the same for mail versus telephone - if you don't need an answer right now then don't call. For the recruiters, the answer is ruder: don't ever call again.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: For the recruiters, the answer is ruder: don't ever call againeven once.
FTFY
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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but I think the "electronic" part of that does imply "immediate"  How or if you choose to be notified is a completely different thing I think.
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Does your fax-machine "notify" you?
I consider it disruptive. It kills the flow, it breaks concentration. It also opens conversation, which might be a good thing - but it's general counterproductive when you're busy refactoring.
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I don't have a fax machine now. I can recall years ago in the "dark ages" having a physical fax machine in the office where I worked, and yes it effectively would notify you due to all the sound it made. When a fax came in you'd hear it. So yes, there was built-in audible notification you could say
Certainly whether or not you want notifications is a personal preference; but there's nothing inherent about Email that would imply a notification or a lack of a notification. Its just a user preference.
Obviously the OP wants the notification else they wouldn't be using the tool in the first place
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: again
A fine word that was discussed [^] yesterday.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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That sounds a bit shady really.
Anyway, I use .. nothing. I just check my email a couple of times per day.
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I actually wrote one: it notifies on the internal intranet whenever a mail comes on the external mail box. It is an exchange agent installed on the external server, written in C#.
On the intranet I use MS-Outlook notification (the little icons in the notification bar)
The signature is in building process.. Please wait...
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I wrote my own one that uses / queries the gmail api. Has the features I want 
I need to modify it for my Windows Live mail though, my old notifier (Miranda IM doesn't seem to work anymore)
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 Just the last photo would have done! 
"State acheived after eating too many chocolate-covered coconut bars - bountiful"
Chris C-B
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I think 'manager' might be overstating his role. Flailing goat herder is more accurate.
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Its been a bad week actually.
Sometimes, it all seems so meaningless.
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We all have them!
Thing is to be positive, learn from the experience.
And go out and get so drunk tonight that you forget all about it.
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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Be realistic instead of positive. There's already too many people who are compulsively positive, and it ain't helping if people ignore the world as is.
"No, we don't need no backups, what could go wrong?"
"Doesn't matter that I lost my leg today, I can still clap my hands"
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Abhinav S wrote: Sometimes, it all seems so meaningless.
I hope it is.
If there is some sort of meaning then I'm doing really badly.
Perhaps I should've read the manual.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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