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Wednesday 12 June 2013
Double-take, # 9
Des Pond of Slough received this email from the Open University last week:
which puzzled him, since that isn't his name.
There are various steps in creating a mail merge, and a late, but crucial, one is actually performing the merge… The OU later sent out an apology.
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