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| Reestit Mutton 2006-03-30, 5:49 pm |
| During one of my casual trawls of the internet I came across the
following site:
http://www.mobilechoice.co.uk/
What I find most laughable about this site is their top sellers
list...it's like something out of the arc, yet there is a statement at
the top of the page saying site updated: 30/3/2006 (yeah, right! we all
know how to use a simple bit of code to display the current date, don't we?)
RM
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FS: brand new SonyEricsson W900i (upgrade handset)
see uk.adverts.telecom.mobile for details
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| Lobster 2006-03-30, 11:48 pm |
| Reestit Mutton wrote:
> During one of my casual trawls of the internet I came across the
> following site:
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> http://www.mobilechoice.co.uk/
>
> What I find most laughable about this site is their top sellers
> list...it's like something out of the arc, yet there is a statement at
> the top of the page saying site updated: 30/3/2006 (yeah, right! we all
> know how to use a simple bit of code to display the current date, don't
> we?)
Yebbut to be fair it does also say it's closed for refurbishment...
although a holding page might be a better option!
David
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| Reestit Mutton 2006-03-30, 11:48 pm |
| Lobster wrote:
> Reestit Mutton wrote:
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> Yep, but to be fair it does also say it's closed for refurbishment...
> although a holding page might be a better option!
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> David
I may well have been pushing it at 4-5 months with my website "refurb",
but what kind of refurbishment takes a couple of YEARS? (that's how old
I reckon the page is from the contents of the top sellers list)
RM
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FS: brand new SonyEricsson W900i (upgrade handset)
see uk.adverts.telecom.mobile for details
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| R. Mark Clayton 2006-03-30, 11:48 pm |
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"Reestit Mutton" <not@this.address> wrote in message
news:442c370a$0$7030
8$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader03.plus.net...
> During one of my casual trawls of the internet I came across the following
> site:
>
> http://www.mobilechoice.co.uk/
>
> What I find most laughable about this site is their top sellers
> list...it's like something out of the arc, yet there is a statement at the
> top of the page saying site updated: 30/3/2006 (yeah, right! we all know
> how to use a simple bit of code to display the current date, don't we?)
>
> RM
Can't work out if this is a Spam promo or whether we are getting the cold
shoulder [of mutton].
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| Reestit Mutton 2006-03-31, 5:48 pm |
| R. Mark Clayton wrote:
> "Reestit Mutton" <not@this.address> wrote in message
> news:442c370a$0$7030
8$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader03.plus.net...
>
>
> Can't work out if this is a Spam promo or whether we are getting the cold
> shoulder [of mutton].
>
Neither.
I've always had a bee in my bonnet wrt websites that publish false
claims on their front pages to make themselves seem to be something that
they are not...IIRC, there was discussion a while back about a site that
used a random number generator for their current visitor counter.
These days its common for people to use a simple current date statement
in their HTML generation to make their site seem to be regularly updated
when it's not - this particular site is simply a rather blatant example
of that particular practice.
RM
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Bringing you the best-value mobile phone contract deals in the UK
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| Neil Monk 2006-03-31, 5:48 pm |
| R. Mark Clayton wrote:
> "Reestit Mutton" <not@this.address> wrote in message
> news:442c370a$0$7030
8$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader03.plus.net...
>
> Can't work out if this is a Spam promo or whether we are getting the
> cold shoulder [of mutton].
I must admit Mark, I thought it was a spamming c*nt using RM's name to post
with. I'm still confused now tbh.
Oh well.....!
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Neil
- www.neilmonk.com -
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| hairydog@despammed.com 2006-03-31, 11:48 pm |
| On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 12:50:22 +0100, Reestit Mutton <not@this.address>
wrote:
>These days its common for people to use a simple current date statement
>in their HTML generation to make their site seem to be regularly updated
>when it's not - this particular site is simply a rather blatant example
>of that particular practice.
Sometimes it isn't deliberately misleading. A website we developed
(but didn't host) used to use javascript to display the file date of
each page, and that showed the user when it was last updated.
Then one week the hosting company changed something, and it always
displayed the current date. I suspect that they were copying the files
elsewhere each day, but I never got to the bottom of it. I just
removed the file date code.
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Iain
the out-of-date hairydog guide to mobile phones
http://www.hairydog.co.uk/cell1.html
Browse now while stocks last!
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