On Sun, 11 Feb 07 12:47:58 GMT, (dmc) wrote:

|!In article ,
|!Dave Fawthrop wrote:
|!
|!|!Yep. that would be perfect. They are obviously linked up somehow as they
|!|!knew my name from my postcode and my previous (online) orders.
|!
|!No! the use a CDROM with all addresses in the UK on it.
|!My address on the CDROM has a parculiarity which allows me to spot where
|!they got it.
|!
|!No, I don't think so.
|!
|!I gave him my surname and postcode - he said "Is that Darren?"
|!
|!He also seemed to know I'd ordered with them before.
|!
|!I never gave him my name - and even if he had a cdrom with all the names
|!and addresses on I'd not given him my house number and half of our
|!street share the postcode.

AFAIK the CDROM also has names and *definitely* other things attached to
house numbers. A shop which I have never had dealings with knows a lot
about me from postcode and house number.
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