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Topic: Derann should probably know about this...
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Jan Bister
Darth 8mm
Posts: 2629
From: Ohio, USA
Registered: Jan 2005
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posted May 28, 2006 01:54 PM
Someone on the 16mm forum:
"Does anyone know the prints Derann sells stating -stunning colour print,are they l.p.p. or what?Everytime i send an email asking a question about a particular film no answer,besides the one time i inquired on availability?"
Me:
"Paul,
when emailing Derann make sure you put 'DFS' in the subject line (at the beginning). Otherwise their servers delete the message immediately and it's never seen by them. They were forced to do this as as countermeasure to rising waves of spam."
Someone else:
"Hi Jan,
Are you kidding?!?!? How in the world is anybody supposed to know how to do that?!?!
Yet anther stupid, ill-conceived attempt to control SPAM at the expense of throwing away legitimate email. Try to imagine what the world would be like if Citibank implemented this for their paper mail. When you mail your payment in to them, they quietly throw it away because you didn't draw a smiley face in the lower right corner (the secret to getting past Citibank's "junk mail control")! They don't bother to tell you to do this, somehow YOU are supposed to just know it.......
-Mike"
Me again:
"I'm dead serious... Your point is perfectly well made, though (and I can't answer the question of how people are supposed to know this). You're right... it would help if they put up a little notice on the front page of their website. Confused
The reason why I know this is that two of the Derann people are members at the Film-Tech 8mm forum and have made posts there letting the other members know about it."
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Call me Phoenix. *dusts off the ashes*
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Jan Bister
Darth 8mm
Posts: 2629
From: Ohio, USA
Registered: Jan 2005
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posted May 28, 2006 06:49 PM
You're right on all counts Kevin, of course! But this is coming from the guys at the 16mm forum (not our 16mm area but a completely different forum site). I'm sure "we" don't have a problem with Derann's way of doing this ![[Smile]](smile.gif) but they do. And to be perfectly honest they do have a point in asking how they were supposed to know about it when nobody told them - which, most likely, nobody did. ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
That's why I brought this issue up in here, with the thought that Derann might want to consider putting up an appropriate notice on their website, as I had suggested on the 16mm forum. This way everybody would know to put DFS in their emails, not just people who happen to be members around here. That's all ![[Cool]](cool.gif)
P.S.: didn't realize you made the request on Derann's behalf, Kevin, long before Adrian and Gary ever joined here. Oops
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