If you want to talk to us about a course, please call us. If you're a newcomer to Open Source or have a project you want to talk about - even if it's unlikely that you'll be wanting to be trained, please feel free to call. If you want to sell us a telephone service, holiday, double glazing, or a Jacuzzi... we're not interested.
We're registered with the
Telephone Preference Service - a free registration - which adds our numbers to a list that cold telephone callers are supposed to check against ... and most do. We still get the odd one, like the call the other day from a lady who though we would be interested in her (leisure) products because we're listed in Yellow Pages.
I'm aware that we need to keep an open mind and occasionally - VERY occasionally - there will be an idea introduced to me by a salesman where I say "actually, there's something in that". If you're a salesman targeting a particular niche that we happen to fit into, you're very welcome to send me a personal email. Such emails will be read and carefully considered if there's an indication that you've actually visited our web site, read it a bit and understand a little bit about the organisation you're approaching and why your product suits us. After all, that's the mark of a good salesman.
(written 2005-08-17, updated 2008-05-17)
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[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)
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[1532] Comment spam blocked. Please comment via Forums - (2008-02-05)
[1763] Co-operating to save, yet we dont - (2008-08-21)
[1817] Marc Schneider is still having email trouble - (2008-09-30)
[1978] From spam to mod_alias - finding resources - (2009-01-05)
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[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)
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[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)
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