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For 2023 (and 2024 ...) - we are now fully retired from IT training.
We have made many, many friends over 25 years of teaching about Python, Tcl, Perl, PHP, Lua, Java, C and C++ - and MySQL, Linux and Solaris/SunOS too. Our training notes are now very much out of date, but due to upward compatability most of our examples remain operational and even relevant ad you are welcome to make us if them "as seen" and at your own risk.

Lisa and I (Graham) now live in what was our training centre in Melksham - happy to meet with former delegates here - but do check ahead before coming round. We are far from inactive - rather, enjoying the times that we are retired but still healthy enough in mind and body to be active!

I am also active in many other area and still look after a lot of web sites - you can find an index ((here))
Marc Schneider is still having email trouble

Update - July 2009 ... A further article on Marc Schneider



From my email box this morning ...

Did you receive the e-mail which I sent to you recently (copied here-below)?
Please confirm since I have had problems lately with emails intercepted by spam-filters set too high.
 
Cordially,
 
Marc Schneider, Ph.D.


The email looks vaguely familiar, and I see from my history that Marc thinks he has been having email problems for nearly a year now. Indeed, I wrote to him on 27th November of last year as follows:

Marc, email filters which intercept your email are working correctly, as it is unsolicited bulk email cleverly tailored to appear to be personalised. The fact that we didn't respond means that we are not interested.
 
Your spam and insistence costs us time and money to deal with. Please telephone in with your credit card details so that we can make a ten pound charge for our wasted time. Our number is in my signature.
 
Graham


And - 10 months later - I have yet to receive his call ;-)

Although as a policy (almost as a zealous policy!) we do NOT buy from people who send bulk, unsolicited emails, there are times that I do read them occasionally, and some of the things they point to. Some of the telephony ideas we have followed up in the past have come as a result of emails which happen to have alerted us to services of a type we didn't know existed ... and we now make good use of through competitors - but ones who would distance themselves from the spammers. Our Freephone (0800 043 8225), diverted via the Internet, is perhaps the best example - UK customers can reach us at no charge to them (and not much to us!) 24 x 7, with the phone diversion controlled by us on a web page when we're out of the office.

Much of the text on Marc's site - pointing out that blogging, plenty of one way and reciprocal links, and presence building, Google Maps and the like, Forums, Directory submissions, published signatures, press releases to on line magazines, etc - is correct in its direction and each idea worth reviewing for your site. His suggestion that we hire a gopher of his at $3500 per month (one month minimum) to irritate the heck out of other webmasters and build up a presence is something we can well do without though.

Interestingly, if you serach for "Marc Schneider" on Google, his site doesn't appear on the first page - which tells you something about his techniques, I suspect!
(written 2008-09-30, updated 2009-07-10)

 
Associated topics are indexed as below, or enter http://melksh.am/nnnn for individual articles
G909 - Well House Consultants - Spam, Spamming and Spammers
  [259] Responding to spam - (2005-03-27)
  [268] Information request forms, cleaning up spam - (2005-04-05)
  [276] An apology to Mr Boneparte - (2005-04-11)
  [338] OO techniques are hard to teach - (2005-06-06)
  [347] Frightening and from-friend viruses and spams - (2005-06-14)
  [417] Telephone Preference Service - we're registered - (2005-08-17)
  [495] More spam - a success story - (2005-11-13)
  [872] Email metrics - (2006-09-20)
  [1037] Impact Engineering and Backscatter - (2007-01-16)
  [1115] Unexpected visitors to our site - (2007-03-22)
  [1523] Ive just received an email from myself. Should I be worried? - (2008-01-29)
  [1532] Comment spam blocked. Please comment via Forums - (2008-02-05)
  [1763] Co-operating to save, yet we dont - (2008-08-21)
  [1978] From spam to mod_alias - finding resources - (2009-01-05)
  [2019] Baby Caleb and Fortune City in your web logs? - (2009-01-31)
  [2177] Preventing forum spam - checks at sign up - (2009-05-12)
  [2179] Offers that I can refuse - (2009-05-12)
  [2276] Who is Marc Schneider of Multilingual Search Engine Optimization Inc - (2009-07-10)
  [2398] Websitemediasolution and a goldfish called Carl Johnson - (2009-09-06)
  [2697] Email metrics and filtering - (2010-03-28)
  [2884] Hotlinked images onto adult material sites - (2010-07-23)
  [3016] The legal considerations of your web presence - revisited - (2010-10-26)
  [3166] Well house is strong - confirmed? - (2011-02-11)
  [3190] What do the following web sites have in common? - (2011-03-03)
  [3316] Twitter Phishing Trips ... and a great new alert service - (2011-06-04)
  [3352] World Trade Register - Certainly NOT worth 2985 Euros. - (2011-07-09)
  [3506] Cold call contacts - preference services and turning off spam sales approaches - (2011-11-03)
  [3661] Keeping forum and blog comments clean - (2012-03-19)
  [3910] Identifying your real customers and keeping them well informed fast - (2012-11-02)
  [3912] Sand to Arabia, Coals to Newcastle or Woodburners to Russia - (2012-11-04)
  [3946] Moving from a warning system to a control system - PHP, forum spammers - (2012-12-07)
  [4135] Introducing your product to Well House Consultants - single, personally tuned email please - (2013-07-08)
  [4315] Welcoming genuine forum posters quickly - but turning away off topic advertisers - (2014-11-16)
  [4520] No cold sales calls please - but delighted to hear from others! - (2015-09-29)


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