Date   : Wed, 29 Sep 2010 14:04:04 +0100
From   : robert@... (Rob)
Subject: 8-bit Articles wanted for next issue of Drag 'n Drop

On 29 September 2010 12:56, Andrew Benham <adsb@...> wrote:
> Why are you trying to decode the messages - are you reading your email
> via telnet ? ?I hadn't noticed the email body was base64 encoded, email
> clients here just do the right thing.

I believe JGH is/was actually using Beebs to read his mail!  I wish I
had the patience...

> I recommend signing up to your phone service supplier's Anonymous
> Call Rejection feature. ?For a few quid a month, it gets rid of more
> muppets (some of the ones that aren't caught by the Telephone
> Preference Service).

I spent some time a couple of years ago playing with some scripts on
my asterisk (VoIP) server to handle anonymous calls - it would
basically redirect them to an 070 number so if they really needed to
speak to me, it'd cost them!
http://blog.irrelevant.com/2008/08/asterisk-and-witheld-callers.html

Rob