Mission Posted February 27, 2007 Share Posted February 27, 2007 No offence dude but I do tend to notice odd stuff like that. I know who you did it for (obvious really) but meh, whatever. You can still beat teh filter if you really want to though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simon Posted February 27, 2007 Share Posted February 27, 2007 Yes, I still have the mug with E-Habitant.net.im on it.I still remember that being the biggest ever marketing excercise with flags along Peel Road and stuff being handed out in Strand Street. I remember a long thread on one of the earlier forums or message boards - where a couple of people who worked for the company were arguing that it made any sense - and sensible people saying it was daft rubbish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
copycat Posted February 27, 2007 Share Posted February 27, 2007 is there any physcological profile of blokes who have pony tails? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loaf Posted February 27, 2007 Share Posted February 27, 2007 As I remember it, the only Government money involved was grants for the marketing? The development of the service was privately funded? But yeah, crap idea. I kinda visualize that the marketing effort was the fabulously expensive rockets attached to the pointless, laughable vehicle... type-stuff.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slim Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 The daftest part as I remember it was that the encryption only worked if you were both e-habitants. So were on the same mail server. So your message was never transmitted over the interwebnet. So you didn't need it encrypting.... That aside, the idea of everyone having their own public/private key is actually a good one, in some respects, but it's something that's very difficult to retrofit to the interwebnet. There are better solutions than email, email is very crude, very insecure, a poor identifier of the sender and recipient, and all that, but email is so widely used and it's benefit is that it's widely used which makes it virtually impossible to replace. Anyway, we all know in the very near future the interwebnet will be owned jointly by google and microsoft, so as long as they secure communications between each other, we'll be good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slinkydevil Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 More importantly I never had it properly explained where they got my address and details from as I was not in the phone book at the time. In all these years still no answer to that one, although I have my own thoughts on the matter. Are you on the electoral roll? If so they have your address, quite simple and legal really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Old Git Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 The daftest part as I remember it was that the encryption only worked if you were both e-habitants. Yeah, I think they expected people to give up using their me@mydomain.com or mail@mycompany.com to become joe.bloggs.99@e-habitant.whatever Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katman Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 I did very well out of the e-habitant people. They gave a computer away a day in some competion they ran during the promotion. I won one and had to go to their headquarters with about a dozen or so other winners to pick it up. It was a bog standard business type PC. The one I already had at home was a better spec, so I sold it for £450.00. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moghrey Mie Posted February 28, 2007 Author Share Posted February 28, 2007 is there any physcological profile of blokes who have pony tails? Yes, there probably is a profile.. But then there are dictionaries that tell you how to spell psychological and some people ignore them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheeky boy Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 is there any physcological profile of blokes who have pony tails? Yes, there probably is a profile.. But then there are dictionaries that tell you how to spell psychological and some people ignore them. I've got one that spells "pedantic" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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