Flextel email ~ what do I do?
jaakson
This is the text: http://www.flextel.co.uk/press/news.html
What am I supposed to do? Am I honestly supposed to compose a free
format email answering the points raised by Flextel? Doing that
doesn't quite seem right.
What is that message all about?
Lobster
What's the problem? It's 100% clear on the webpage.
David
Lobster
> I an email from Flextel of their latest news release.
I won't be responding to them, despite having had a flextel number for
donkey's years. In fact, I haven't used it for ages now, as I think
it's a dead duck - first the charge to call a flextel number is
prohibitive - 35p/min!! and secondly, many businesses and systems
specifically bar their number range due to the cost, which means you
risk being unable to be contacted by a caller if all they have is your
flextel number. Also has problems when calling overseas, too.
It's a shame really, as in principle it's an excellent facility; in the
very early days, which was before inclusive-minute mobile contracts
became the norm, it was only slightly more expensive to call via flextel
than to a standard mobile.
David
Bob Eager
They obviously have only one customer, judging by the first sentence.
Must be desperate! :-)
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Lobster
> On Fri, 16 May 2008 16:31:34 UTC, jaakson <jaa...@home.uk> wrote:
>
>> I an email from Flextel of their latest news release.
>>
>> This is the text: http://www.flextel.co.uk/press/news.html
>>
>> What am I supposed to do? Am I honestly supposed to compose a free
>> format email answering the points raised by Flextel? Doing that
>> doesn't quite seem right.
>>
>> What is that message all about?
>
> They obviously have only one customer, judging by the first sentence.
> Must be desperate! :-)
Well as I'm not helping, that's them screwed then!
David
Adrian C
> jaakson wrote:
>> I an email from Flextel of their latest news release.
>
> I won't be responding to them, despite having had a flextel number for
> donkey's years. In fact, I haven't used it for ages now, as I think
> it's a dead duck - first the charge to call a flextel number is
> prohibitive - 35p/min!!
Yes, I was about to ressurect a similar PN service (YAC) that I had
signed upto about 5 years ago. Same thing - very expensive to call. I
would have liked something so that my mobile number change would be the
last one I make (bit like my email address registration with someone
other than my ISP) but err... no, I won't saddle callers with that cost!
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Adrian C
Ian Smith
> On Fri, 16 May 2008 16:31:34 UTC, jaakson <jaa...@home.uk> wrote:
>
>> I an email from Flextel of their latest news release.
>>
>> This is the text: http://www.flextel.co.uk/press/news.html
>>
>> What am I supposed to do? Am I honestly supposed to compose a free
>> format email answering the points raised by Flextel? Doing that
>> doesn't quite seem right.
>>
>> What is that message all about?
>
> They obviously have only one customer, judging by the first sentence.
> Must be desperate! :-)
I agree - I have several numbers, but they are just too expensive to
use. I couldn't care less if they go.
regards, Ian
J B
news:p9CdnT2MYY1HQrDV...@posted.plusnet...
> I agree - I have several numbers, but they are just too expensive to use.
> I couldn't care less if they go.
Disagree
It's useful when folks insist on a valid phone number on those web forms
Also useful to 'discourage' folks from ringing ,that you don't want to hear
from! :-)
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J B
jaakson
> On Fri, 16 May 2008 16:31:34 UTC, jaakson <jaa...@home.uk> wrote:
>
>> I an email from Flextel of their latest news release.
>>
>> This is the text: http://www.flextel.co.uk/press/news.html
>>
>> What am I supposed to do? Am I honestly supposed to compose a free
>> format email answering the points raised by Flextel? Doing that
>> doesn't quite seem right.
>>
>> What is that message all about?
>
> They obviously have only one customer, judging by the first sentence.
> Must be desperate! :-)
Sorry about the missing word!
It should have said:
"I had an email from Flextel ... "
jaakson
Who else apart from Flextel and YAC are providing free portable numbers
but at less cost for callers?
Bob Eager
That wasn't what I meant. I was referring to the first sentence on the
Flextel site:
"Ofcom, the communications regulator, has approached FleXtel to ask
for our customer's help."
Soruk
This may surprise you - but Flextel do. They now allow their 0871
(10p/min) numbers to be forwarded to mobiles, except for 3UK.
In some circumstances this might even make it cheaper to call a mobile via
an 0871 than by dialling its actual number.
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Tim Clark
"Bob Eager" <rd...@spamcop.net> writes:
> On Fri, 16 May 2008 21:20:26 UTC, jaakson <jaa...@home.uk> wrote:
>
>> On Fri 16 May 2008 19:16:22, Bob Eager wrote:
>>
>> > On Fri, 16 May 2008 16:31:34 UTC, jaakson <jaa...@home.uk> wrote:
>> >
>> >> I an email from Flextel of their latest news release.
>> >>
>> >> This is the text: http://www.flextel.co.uk/press/news.html
>> >>
>> >
>> > They obviously have only one customer, judging by the first sentence.
>> > Must be desperate! :-)
>>
>> Sorry about the missing word!
>> It should have said:
>>
>> "I had an email from Flextel ... "
>
> That wasn't what I meant. I was referring to the first sentence on the
> Flextel site:
>
> "Ofcom, the communications regulator, has approached FleXtel to ask
> for our customer's help."
The problem of confusing singular/plural and their possessive forms is
no longer confined to just greengrocers. Unfortunately, it is no longer
considered important. So when Flextel write seeking help from their
customer, one is no longer expected to take what they say at face value,
and wonder why they only have one customer. Instead the reader is meant
to be concentrating on any flashy surrounding graphics. The
recipients of these communications are expected to be as illiterate as
the sender. Pretty pictures are therefore considered far more
important in any announcement.
--
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Andrew Gabriel
"Tim Clark" <Timoth...@btinternet.com> writes:
>
> The problem of confusing singular/plural and their possessive forms is
> no longer confined to just greengrocers. Unfortunately, it is no longer
> considered important. So when Flextel write seeking help from their
> customer, one is no longer expected to take what they say at face value,
> and wonder why they only have one customer. Instead the reader is meant
> to be concentrating on any flashy surrounding graphics. The
> recipients of these communications are expected to be as illiterate as
> the sender. Pretty pictures are therefore considered far more
> important in any announcement.
I wonder if schools even bother teaching this anymore?
I think the plural possessive trailing apostropie is now so
rarely used correctly that a significant proportion of
readers who notice it would think it was a typing error. I
do still instinctively use it, but I then find myself doing a
double take on what I've written, and asking myself if that
apostrophie is likely to help most of my readership comprehend
the sentence, and deciding it probably doesn't. On that basis,
I reluctantly suspect it's a piece of punctuation best left
behind in the 20th century.
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Lobster
> "Ian Smith" <news0807R...@orrery.e4ward.com> wrote in message
> news:p9CdnT2MYY1HQrDV...@posted.plusnet...
>
>> I agree - I have several numbers, but they are just too expensive to
>> use. I couldn't care less if they go.
>
> Disagree
Disagree!
> It's useful when folks insist on a valid phone number on those web forms
I use either a 'dead' number from the 'drama range'
<http://www.ofcom.org.uk/telecoms/ioi/numbers/num_drama>
or, if it's for something where there's a small chance I might want to
be contacted but don't want to risk my ordinary number ending up on a
spammer's list, then I use my otherwise unused but working VOIP number,
which would send me any voicemail message left as an email.
> Also useful to 'discourage' folks from ringing ,that you don't want to
> hear from! :-)
See above! much more effective...
David
Rob
"jaakson" <jaa...@home.uk> wrote in message
news:Xns9AA0B249...@127.0.0.1...
>I an email from Flextel of their latest news release.
>
> This is the text: http://www.flextel.co.uk/press/news.html
>
> What am I supposed to do?
Do you have an adult to ask, or do you turn to a newsgroup each time
a decision is to be made? No wonder there are so many helpless, useless
people in this country that demand everyone else thinks for them.
Larousse
I think the sweetest error is to use "asterix" for "asterisk".
Bob Eager
> I think the sweetest error is to use "asterix" for "asterisk".
Yes, I love that one. They'll be saying that Cleopatra's Needle is an
obelix next...
Adrian C
> Do you have an adult to ask, or do you turn to a newsgroup each time
> a decision is to be made? No wonder there are so many helpless, useless
> people in this country that demand everyone else thinks for them.
>
You are not a very good troll, are you Tiscali Idiot?!
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Adrian C
Iain
> Who else apart from Flextel and YAC are providing free portable numbers
> but at less cost for callers?
viop.co.uk, sipgate.co.uk - not intended as portable numbers, of course.
Iain
> I wonder if schools even bother teaching this anymore?
Very definitely, some do. The literacy hour had a huge impact on some
schools, and the results are now beginning to reach school leaving age.
Children leaving school able to write grammatically correct English -
something we've not seen for decades!
Oliver W
<and...@cucumber.demon.co.uk> writes
>
>I think the plural possessive trailing apostropie is now so
>rarely used correctly that a significant proportion of
>readers who notice it would think it was a typing error. I
>do still instinctively use it, but I then find myself doing a
>double take on what I've written, and asking myself if that
>apostrophie is likely to help most of my readership comprehend
>the sentence, and deciding it probably doesn't. On that basis,
>I reluctantly suspect it's a piece of punctuation best left
>behind in the 20th century.
1.
So, are the following best left behind?
"The parents' intentions for their children to have a good education..."
"The voters' opinions were clear in the election results."
2.
Each of the above sentences contains an apostrophe, not an apostropie or
an apostrophie.
(Yes, I know, nothing to do with telecomms.)
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unless spam is sent to it, after which all its mail will
be discarded}.
NoMailWanted
>This may surprise you - but Flextel do. They now allow their 0871
>(10p/min) numbers to be forwarded to mobiles, except for 3UK.
>
>In some circumstances this might even make it cheaper to call a mobile via
>an 0871 than by dialling its actual number.
Thanks for that - been a while since I had looked at personal numbers
but that's certainly worth knowing, and true about the 0871 being a
bit cheaper - of interest to some parents if they have teens "out
all the time", too.