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Tom Potts wrote: > On Thursday 28 September 2006 02:16, Michael Mortimore wrote: >> obviously they aren't too dumb to realise. npower are tho. i signed up >> a year ago on the website, and when we went to close the account in >> july they hadn't heard of us. they had however been happily supplying >> us with power for a year. > We had the reverse - we lived somewhere for 11 years and every year were > threatened with court action over non payment buy british gas who did not > supply us through a meter we didn't have that they checked we didn't have and > agreed we didn't have, and then threatened us again. > Got it sorted and moved here! > Tom et tom > > I heard a similar story from an IT teacher of old... their 'system' would send him bills for £0.00 as you may imagine he just binned them. he was summoned to court by the 'system' and ended up having to write them a cheque for £0.00 to settle the bill and get disconnected. -- Neil Stone Systems Administrator FlashTek UK -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GIT d+(++) s: a-(?) C++++(--) UL++++$ P+ L+++ E- W+++ N+ o+ w--- O M PS+ Y+ PGP++ t+ 5+ X+ R+ tv+ b- DI++ D+++ G e h--- r+++ y++++(**) -----END GEEK CODE BLOCK----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html