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The deadline for registration as a system builder under the WEEE(EEY) legislation is today. ie. If you’re building and selling your own systems or rebranded hardware, you’re meant to join a scheme and then pay wodges of cash to ensure environmentally friendly disposal of your systems when they end of life. This doesn’t apply if you’re reselling someone else’s branded systems.

The legal stuff:
http://www.dti.gov.uk/files/file35992.pdf

http://www.dti.gov.uk/innovation/sustainability/weee/page30269.html

Now our penguins are safe.

Anyone looking for amusement should head to their nearest computer shop and ask if they’ve “registered for WEEE”. Photos of the resultant facial expressions should be sent to me. Prizes awarded.

Google “freeserve spam” or “wanadoo spam” and you’ll see these guys get themselves blacklisted frequently by dns blacklists for backscatter spam and for spammers using their network. Spamhaus, Spamcop and Sorbs all pick up some of their servers regularly. Their mails get bounced by any email provider using dns blacklists. Unfortunately, people keep using them. Why?

I’d write more on this, but so many have already.

If you’re attached to your Freeserve/Wanadoo/Orange account, but are sick of having your emails bounced, I suggest reading Andrew West’s Gmail workaround for Orange/Freeserve/Wanadoo customers with email problems.