I got an e-mail from the Economist today, saying they were moving some
of their online content back behind the subscriber firewall, but since
I was a print subscriber, I just needed to go and click this link and
enter the code they included in the email thusly:
Customer reference number:
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 03:55:34PM -0700, Darrell Fuhriman wrote:
And don't even get me started on software stripping leading zeroes from
addresses (house numbers or zipcodes can have leading zeroes, you
morons.) Never, ever, load address data into excel.
House numbers with leading
And don't even get me started on software stripping leading zeroes
from addresses (house numbers or zipcodes can have leading zeroes, you
morons.) Never, ever, load address data into excel.
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On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 03:55:34PM -0700, Darrell Fuhriman wrote:
Your Customer Reference Number is 8 digits. Please refer to your most
recent copy of The Economist to see it on your mailing label beginning
with 0 (zero).
I've seen sillier...
We can't accept that credit card number because
On Oct 10, 2009, at 12:39 AM, Roger Burton West wrote:
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 03:55:34PM -0700, Darrell Fuhriman wrote:
Your Customer Reference Number is 8 digits. Please refer to your most
recent copy of The Economist to see it on your mailing label
beginning
with 0 (zero).
I've seen
2009/10/10 Joshua Juran jju...@gmail.com:
On Oct 10, 2009, at 12:39 AM, Roger Burton West wrote:
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 03:55:34PM -0700, Darrell Fuhriman wrote:
Your Customer Reference Number is 8 digits. Please refer to your most
recent copy of The Economist to see it on your mailing
2009/10/10 Roger Burton West ro...@firedrake.org:
I've seen sillier...
We can't accept that credit card number because it has spaces in it.
Please re-enter it without spaces.
I love to hate that one, too.
Please format the number for computer consumption, rather than what
looks readable to a
Then there's this one, found on job-hunting sites where you need to
enter your work history: The company name you entered is invalid;
it must start with a capital letter (seen when trying to enter a
company name starting with a digit followed by a lowercase letter).