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When we give out our email address we put the person's or business's name we're dealing with as the prefix. So everyone gets a bespoke email address. And if they email us we know who it's from without reading it. And if someone else uses that email address we know it's been stolen etc. This has happened on a couple of occasions and we could tell where the addresses were stolen from or given out without permission. I contacted one firm and they got very defensive and shut my account.

 

Do you mean you have masses of email addresses, such as NEXTCactusgirl@ and AmazonCactusgirl@ etc?

I do use one address for shopping etc, but a gmail one for more official type of things such as council. I find that one has far fewer spam emails.

 

Yes @Golarne I do indeed. For example next.xxx @xxxxxx.co.uk. The xxx before the @ are my initials so that when emails come in mine and hubby's computers receive their respective emails. Family and close friends all have the same email address as we trust them and some emails will be joint ones, where either of us could receive it. We also have org.uk etc as we wanted to grab the domain name for ourselves. Of course you have to pay for these, but we managed to get a 6 year deal, which was very good value for money. All very complicated!

 

With gmail you can add anything after a + sign and the mail delivers to your main inbox. Very
handy to see where the email is coming from, and if you suddenly start to get a lot of spam to that address you'll know where the scammers got the address from.

 

Interesting, using my Michael Caine impression, not a lot of people know that.

Well didn't anyway, I never read up on this stuff.

 

Hells Bells.......... I thought making/using an email address was quite simple - even for me ........ now I know differently

 

When my niece was a kid her e-mail address was 'FlouncyFay@...' because she used to get in a huff very easily and stomp off. Her mum had set the e-mail address up for her and Fay actually thought it was funny. That was fine until she went for her first interview, applied for on an application form and no e-mail required at that point. At the end of the interview they did ask for her e-mail address, which the interviewer thankfully did find amusing. Nonetheless a new e-mail address was quickly created.

 

Its been mostly dry here today but had some heavy rain just now, not good if you are parking cars in fields.

It isn't the remotestly thundery in fact its cold.
Just normal summer weather.

 

@Fat Controller I totally agree. We had the same forecast here and had about an hour of rain and it's now bright sunshine again. Massive car boot here has been cancelled too. Everybody seems to overreact to the slightest thing now, in terms of weather. We've had a couple of similar weather warnings recently and neither has come to anything.

 

Probably due to insurance. If an event went ahead after a weather warning and you had to claim on the insurance the insurance company would immediately flag the fact that you had gone ahead despite the weather warning.

 

It could so easily have gone the other way tho - remember the hurricane winds of October 87 that were forecast not to touch England at all? Not clever for any outdoor events or all the trees and power lines uprooted and/or felled.

That said, you'd have thought with all the extra powerful computing processors they now have and the satellites and algorithms that they'd be a bit more accurate. We were supposed to stay dry all day here tho cloudy. Come 5pm I decided the clouds looked heavy and wet and by 6pm we'd had a thorough unpredicted soaking.

 

That was an overnight event not daytime.

 

They are just pushing the climate change issue.
Everything has to be dramatic these days.

I was watching the BBC news a few days back when the glacier fell apart in Switzerland.

The news reporter was asking an "expert" about what happened and the first question seemed to be was it climate change?
The expert said they were not sure, but the reporter kept trying to get them to say it was.

The questioning was to get that reason even though they had said they wasn't sure.

Everything can be put down to climate change or Donald Trumps fault these days.

 

@NigelJ bit facile? No event these days is spontaneous and many public ones need setting up in advance with traffic control and barriers and signage and all sorts. They get set up in the days before so, whether a storm hits by day or night, if it's not forecast it's devastating.

If it is forecast and doesn't happen then it's also devastating for the organisers but not as potentially deadly.