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Competition To Find Aussie PM's Email Address

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Email him here by Anonymous Coward · · 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.

  2. Email Address by ZenJabba1 · · 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

    --
    `find / -name "*your_base*" -exec chown us:us {} \;`
  3. Re:Is It Just Me... by zwoelfk · · 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.
  4. Re:Ok, what ithe heck by bcboy · · 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.