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uhybouy
17y ago
No way of toggling images, no easy control of individual site settings, no popup/ad blocking. No way of editing the visited sites or bookmarks.
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uhybouy
17y ago
No because the customer would never use that bad address, none of their customers would ever use it as a home address for instance. If they decided to post a letter to every address in the database then one of them would be undelivered - bu
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uhybouy
17y ago
UK postcodes are equivalent to the 5+4 US zip codes. They list part of a street, typically 10-20 houses.
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uhybouy
17y ago
You also need it to generate a "addresses within X miles of Y" type list for a website.
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uhybouy
17y ago
And is very expensive and restrictive in how you can use it. We licensed the Postal Address File (the list of official correct addresses for each house) and we had to add encryption to our product to stop people being able to extract the ra
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uhybouy
17y ago
To stop me buying a legal copy and then immediately selling it as my own data. You don't have to tell the users that the data is there, simply generate a postcode that doesn't exist - then when a new postcode mapping product comes on the m
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uhybouy
17y ago
30 years experience as teacher/head of a $30K/year private school? No - you aren't qualified to teach in a state school, and the teacher's union welcomes the decision. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristram_Jones-Parry
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uhybouy
17y ago
The 'legal source' would have to have the canary address - so you could tell if it was used. Unless somebody thinks this was a deliberate leak to poison the free data - in which case it would have it's own canary address