Automatic quote reminders: how they should behave

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Set days, working hours, your name, stop on answer, stop on request, never twice in a day, never a guessed price. An automatic reminder is only as good as its guards. The ones that matter: it never sends outside working hours or on a bank holiday; it never sends two in a day to one customer; it stops the moment the customer answers or asks it to; and it never sends a price it read wrongly from a document. The last one is why a reader should be checked by rules, and why the first few readings should be shown to a person. Everything Chase My Quote sends passes those guards, and they are tested every time the code changes.

Automatic quote reminders: how they should behave

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