Competition To Find Aussie PM's Email Address

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Competition To Find Aussie PM's Email Address

Posted by timothy on Sunday January 19, 2003 @09:38PM from the why-not-ask-some-spammers dept.

Internet Ninja writes "While we can all send anti-war emails to 'president' of the USA and even the Australian opposition, nobody can email the Prime Minister of Australia. So the opposition party started a competition to track it down as reported in Australias Sydney Morning Herald."

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Email him here by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-19 21:49 · Score: 5, Informative

Providing a Feedback form rather than just an email address is a very good way of limiting the spam that the PM would receive.
1. Re:Email him here by echucker · 2003-01-19 23:31 · Score: 2, Informative
  
  .... and by reading the article, you would have noticed that the opposition party has already acknowledged the existance of said form. They want a direct email address.
e-mail him from here by patch-rustem · 2003-01-19 21:52 · Score: 2, Informative

You can e-mail the Prime Minister by following the steps set out if you folloe this link . . http://www.pm.gov.au/your_feedback/feedback.h tm

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Email Address by ZenJabba1 · 2003-01-19 21:57 · Score: 5, Informative

J.Howard.MP@aph.gov.au

Taken from an old usenet posting when he was still a MP, and it doesn't bounce, so I'm assuming its good

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1. Re:Email Address by Tyreth · 2003-01-19 22:17 · Score: 2, Informative
  
  Seems to bounce now. I think they may have changed it?
  This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification. Delivery to the following recipients failed. J.Howard.MP@aph.gov.au
Re:Anti-war petitions by Charm · 2003-01-19 22:39 · Score: 3, Informative

These are hoaxes, but how do I convince the people that send me these, that this is the case?
I used to get a lot of these. First find a case of that letter on a anti hoax site saying that it is a hoax. Reply and tell them they have been hoaxed. If they are forwarding it to a lot of people then forward the anti-hoax information as well. Having backup from a anti-hoax site reinforces your statement and they will look like an ass and think twice before sending such letters again.
Some Anti-hoax sites
Hoax Busters
Virus Myths
Just search on google for urban legends and you will get more sites.

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Re:Is It Just Me... by zwoelfk · 2003-01-19 23:51 · Score: 4, Informative

1. I agree with you, Americans have a tendency to believe that anything they read on the net should be relevent to them. However, they aren't the only ones.

2. Slashdot isn't the internet. I'm very happy to see international stories on Slashdot, but the expectation of the original poster that Slashdot not post too many non-US-related stories is understandable given this from the FAQ:

Slashdot seems to be very U.S.-centric. Do you have any plans to be more international in your scope?

Slashdot is U.S.-centric. We readily admit this, and really don't see it as a problem. Slashdot is run by Americans, after all, and the vast majority of our readership is in the U.S. We're certainly not opposed to doing more international stories, but we don't have any formal plans for making that happen. All we can really tell you is that if you're outside the U.S. and you have news, submit it, and if it looks interesting, we'll post it.

Answered by: CmdrTaco
Last Modified: 10/28/00

3. The original poster was trolling. Don't feed the trolls! TIA.
Ummm.... by hbean · 2003-01-20 02:41 · Score: 2, Informative

http://www.pm.gov.au/your_feedback/feedback.htm appears to be a form to email the australian PM. Unless I'm blind and the words "Email the Prime Minister" don't mean that anymore.

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Re:That's going to be as hard to find by swordboy · 2003-01-20 03:41 · Score: 3, Informative

Not really - some groups often set up extranet's that they assume to be private when they really aren't. A while ago, FOX took over Speedvision because it was becoming very popular, yet didn't show much in the way of FOX's ASSCAR (Redneck's turning left). FOX saw this as a threat, so they conveniently bought up the station so they could cram the content down the viewers throats - the US seems to be hip to eating up *whatever* is delivered to them.

In all, I became frustrated so I scoured the net for some information. It turned out that there was an "affiliate" site set up by FOX that was completely open and unsecured. I was able to get some stuff... Here are the regional VP's contact info:

Northeast
CT, DE, DC, MN, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, VT, WV
Bill Lyons

(212) 822-9023

blyons@foxcable.com
1211 Avenue of the Americas
31st Floor
New York, NY 10036

Central
IL, IN, IA, KS, MN, MD, MA, MI, MO, NE, ND, OH, SD, WI
Ken Tremback

ktremback@foxcable.com

(314) 206-7029
700 St. Louis Union Station
Suite 300
St. Louis, MO 63103

Southeast
AL, FL, GA, KY, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, Puerto Rico & Caribbean
Chris Killebrew

(404) 230-7317

ckillebrew@foxcable.com
1175 Peachtree Street N.E.
100 Colony Square, Suite 200
Atlanta, GA 30361

Southwest
AR, CO, ID (Southern), LA, MT, OK, TX, UT, WY
Rob Evanko

(972) 868-1801

revanko@foxcable.com
100 East Royal Lane
Suite 200
Irving, TX 75039

West
AK, AZ, CA, HI, ID (panhandle), NV, NM, OR, WA
Matt Cacciato

(310) 286-3713

mcacciato@foxcable.com
10000 Santa Monica Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90067

Go ahead and ping them if you aren't happy with their decisions as of late (Futurama, etc).

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Re:oh dear god by diodegod · 2003-01-20 03:48 · Score: 3, Informative

Once the PM's email is made public, he will get tons of spam.

He's probably more concerned about getting "flamed" right now.

For all you non-Australians out there, I'm guessing you haven't heard of the horrific bushfires plaguing our capital city (Canberra, where the Prime Minister lives, hence the PM getting "flamed". I hate it when I have to explain jokes). Maybe the 4 dead and 400 homes razed to the ground (the last I heard of it) doesn't warrant air-time on your news networks compared to "let's go to war!"

Typical, us Aussies had 11/9 plastered on our tv sets for weeks, and !@#$!@#$

Sorry, teen angst.

~Duane

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Re:Ok, what ithe heck by bcboy · 2003-01-20 06:07 · Score: 4, Informative

> However inaccurate the counting in Florida is - and I think virtually everyone agrees it was a close run thing, however you count it

This just isn't true. It wasn't close. Between the "Jews for Buchanan" vote and the Democratic voters that brother Jeb arbitrarily threw off the voter rolls, Florida overwhelmingly tried to vote for Gore.

In any case, the voting results weren't used. The Supreme Court justified installing Bush by pointing to press accounts of the election. Bush was elected by Fox News.

The take-home lesson: your vote doesn't count; what the media report counts.
The form goes nowhere by Mazurbul · 2003-01-20 06:13 · Score: 2, Informative

If you look at the code for the feedback form:

You'll notice that mailto has no value, I'd say it doesn't submit anywhere.