Fri, 2006-12-29
A reply from CIMA permalink
They have referred me to the Information Commissioner.
Wed, 2006-12-20
Data Partnership Solutions and Satellite Direct permalink
From the Companies House Webcheck database:
DATA PARTNERSHIP SOLUTIONS LIMITED 168 CHURCH ROAD HOVE EAST SUSSEX BN3 2DL
SATELLITE DIRECT UK LIMITED 168 CHURCH ROAD HOVE EAST SUSSEX BN3 2DLSpooky coincidence or what?
DPS seem to be associated with the phone number 0870 240 2559 (08702402559)
The above address seems to be that of a company of Chartered Accountants
UHY Hacker Young 168 Church Road Hove East Sussex BN3 2DL UK Tel: 01273 726445
Fri, 2006-12-15
The Information Commissioner has responded permalink
to my complaint about automated marketing phone calls despite my being on the TPS register.
Some interesting snippets:
15th December 2006
Thank you for your correspondence regarding telephone calls from Satellite
Direct.
...
In this case we have received a number of complaints regarding these calls.
...
Although the Information Commissioner has no powers to punish any organisation
or individual for any likely contravention of the Privacy and Electronic
Communications Regulations, there is action he can take to bring about future
compliance with the Regulations.
P.S.
No response yet from the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.
Fri, 2006-12-01
Spammed by a UK professional permalink
For a change, not your usual Stock pump'n'dump scams, or herbal Viagra, but an e-mail from a UK Accountancy firm. Why they think that I might have any interest in them I do not know, but then the e-mail address that they sent it to was actually a Message-ID that my MTA had created when it received a spam back in 2004. Try explaining that to the Data Protection Registrar.
Sending unsolicited marketing e-mail to an individual in the UK is an offence under the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003
I'm not the only person to seen this spam - there is another report as well as mine in news.admin.net-abuse.sightings: http://groups.google.com/groups?q=vnaccounting
I've sent a complaint off to the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants which are mentioned on the spammer's web page. Let's see if a Professional body is prepared to take action against its unprofessional members.
The spam was sent from, and the spammer's web site is hosted by Fasthosts, who have in the past been less than co-operative in fighting spam: for some time they would not accept e-mail reports, and forced you to go via a web page, that enforced a 50 word limit on the length of the complaint.
The details of the spammer's company are:
vnaccounting.com Vishal Nanda VN Accounting Ltd 70 College Street Portsea Portsmouth PO1 3HA TELEPHONE (044) 02392 298 255 COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 5029548 VAT REGISTRATION NUMBER: 833 6195 20
Sat, 2006-11-25
How to complain about phone abuse. permalink
If there is a premium rate phone number (beginning with 090 or 091) involved, ICSTIS are the people to complain to. ICTIS complaint form
If you are registered with the Telephone Preference Service, use their complaint form
If you have been annoyed by unsolicited automated marketing calls,
use the Information Commissioner's Office
Complaint
form
Tue, 2006-11-21
Satellite Direct permalink
Satellite Direct Imperium House Ford Lane Arundel West Sussex BN18 0DF 08702 402491I've been getting a lot of phone calls from this organization, despite being registered with the Telephone Preference Service (TPS).
First they were automated calls, in violation of section 19 of The Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003.
Despite complaining to the TPS a couple of weeks ago, I have now received a live call from an operator.
There is also discussion in the newsgroup uk.telecom of such calls dating back to July. Googling the web and groups for the phone number 08702402491 (without any spaces) seems to be the most productive search.
I would strongly advise against doing business with any organisation that flagrently disregards the law and the rights and privacy of individuals.
I'm not the only one fed up with this, either.
I presume that their domain is satellitedirectuk.com, in which case this extract from their whois record might be of interest. The two post codes are for locations only a few hundred metres apart.
Name.........: Satellite Direct Uk Limited PostAddress..: Unit 5. Orchard Business Park PostCode.....: BN18 0EH PostArea.....: Yapton, UK Country......: UK Phone........: +44 01243555044 Fax..........: +44 01243844094
Sun, 2006-07-30
Imperial/Metric/Whitworth spanner sizes permalink
The Excel version is years old - no guarantees that it will still open. OpenOffice2 spread sheet (15Kb)
Zipped Excel 4.0 spread sheet (4Kb)
HTML
More playing around, hacking perl, learning CSS. permalink
The web site currently validates nicely at w3.org
Getting started permalink
Just playing around with Blosxom
Sat, 2006-07-01
Thanks for the e-mail. permalink