Re: Today, I had the misfortune

Buying a malt at Morrisons vs tasting it at the distillery is rather like the difference between buying a fish at Morrisons and getting it at the dock off the boat.

Cheers

PeteS

Not long now until the most Northerly Scotch is ready for consumption - late this year for the three year old and late 2008 for the 5 year old. Check out

I grew up in Shetland so I must declare an interest in plugging the local booze. I can also recommend White Wife and Simmer Dim real ales

I know and it worried me somewhat, especially considering what they are charging. However, I think there must be some 8yo due for an appearance because I dimly remember them beginning to mature the whisky quite a while ago (and it's been easily three years since I was last on the island).

Still it's darn cold up there and a bit of rough whisky would be welcome to warm the cockles ;-)

I just looked and downloaded a couple of ds without registration. Only Javascript, no flash also.

Eeyore wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@hotmail.com:

The reason is a good one, it might just need a better answer. If people are using automatic tools to trawl their database, maybe to set up their own as a way to trap business, the original source loses out twice, first in bandwidth costs, later in lost business. They probably want to make sure that if someone comes after their stuff it's a human wanting something specific, not some kind of virtual riever.

I don't like the new blocks and annoyances, but I can see why their being tried. Still, if these sites would dispense with the feature rich added value pumped up extra silliness they'd maybe save even more bandwidth and money, but such is life...

I was raised a little to the south of you (in Wick), and my great grandfather worked in the local distillery. After he retired, the workers would bring him a bottle of 'white whisky' once a week, and a bottle of the good stuff (marked as failing to meet standard, but that was just a ruse) every fortnight.

It's cold there too - went there last week to catch up with family.

Cheers

PeteS

Well I am currently at about 28 hours (or more).

As they expect everybody to use their webforms if the web forms are not working nothing gets through.

-- Paul Carpenter | snipped-for-privacy@pcserviceselectronics.co.uk PC Services GNU H8 & mailing list info For those web sites you hate

I wonder how many companies have opened sales offices in Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria.... because of those stupid forms!

Hello John,

Nope, they are going to places like Malaysia and Singapore...

I pity the poor sap who's phone number is:

tim

It seems like snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com has a hard life also.

VLV

Hmm, good point, would not want any collateral damage to innocent parties.

Do you think I am safe to use

just_give_me_the snipped-for-privacy@you.useless.cretins ?

That sounds perfect to me. It sends a message with no collateral damage.

I occasionally use a contact address at the company with the form. The possible downside is they will decide the problem is that the e-mail address's are available not that they are blocking access to gather address's themselves.

Robert

I often fill in the address as "dont be nosey street"

tim

On those sites where I might want to hear from them, I assign them a site-specific E-mail address... snipped-for-privacy@my.address.forward.com

That way I can both control their access to me and stomp them if they sell my address ;-)

...Jim Thompson

For phone numbers, I tend to supply (207) 555-1212, which is the information number for the Maine area code here in the US and Canada. It involves a charge. Always valid.

The technical documents for email reccomend .invalid on the end of fictional, or munged, email addresses.

example.com is a domain that belongs to noone, and never will.

However, if you want to make a statement; putting their own sales, support, or postmaster, email address wouldbe an option :-)

Bye. Jasen