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Re: pptp-based vpn



On Sunday 09 August 2015 22:41:18 David Wright wrote:
> Quoting Lisi Reisz (lisi.reisz@gmail.com):
> > On Sunday 09 August 2015 02:48:57 David Wright wrote:
> > > Quoting Lisi Reisz (lisi.reisz@gmail.com):
> > > > As if I shan't have
> > > > enough to do if my husband predeceases me, I shall have to acquire a
> > > > paid-for TV Licence rapidly, if I am not to have their bulldogs after
> > > > me. Or I suppose that I could just get rid of the TV!!  Fast.  And
> > > > watch iPlayer after the event.  Though not everything is available
> > > > that way.
> > >
> > > the licence is per household so you're covered
> > > until the expiry date anyway.
> >
> > I shall have to check.  But I think that you are only entitled to a free
> > licence, however long the piece of paper says, while the free licence
> > holder is alive.
>
> D'oh! (My turn). I hadn't picked up on the significance of "paid-for"
> and just assumed that one of you paid the bills and "all that sort of
> thing". 

Correct.  I do!  But when they said: change the name on your licence to your 
husband's and you can have it free, I said thanks and changed the name.

>
> > It was bound to have gone on line.  But I haven't had to pay for one for
> > 7 years so didn't know that.  But I'll still have enough to worry about
> > without flipping TV licences!
>
> AFAICT you could put the TV licence in the name of your pet rabbit; so
> long as the address has one, they will not disturb you. 

Yes, but, slow as they are,  I think that they just might pick up on the 
person entitled to a free licence being dead, seeing as how deaths have to be 
registered!  He'll just have to take care to let me predecease him. ;-)  Or 
wait until I qualify for a free licence myself.

> Were you to 
> get rid of your TV (and let your licence expire), they would plague
> you with letters until you made a declaration. (Even then they might not
> stop.)

At one stage I didn't have a television.  I assure you they don't stop!!

Lisi



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