Competition To Find Aussie PM's Email Address

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."

Comments

Anti-war petitions

[Kingpin]

I've recently received chain-letter-like anti-war petitions, stating that they origin from the UN that are in the process of gathering signatures.. (Why they would want to do that is beyond me). These are hoaxes, but how do I convince the people that send me these, that this is the case? I have tried pointing them to the page at the UN that explains that they don't do petitions, that didn't work.

Could it be, that these mails have some effect, despite they are not from the UN, I mean, do they end up on someones desk, or in a killfile?

Re:Anti-war petitions

[GregWebb]

Why doesn't Outlook Express show the BCC field, though? Have to turn on 'Rich headers' to get it...

Anyway... I tend to regard this ignorance of BCC as very useful. Means whenever I receive such mail I can explain this to all their friends as well as just them. Not only do I get many times the opportunities for cluestick practice but all now understand that such a mail can lead to public shame. Very useful :-)

Re:Anti-war petitions

[Corporate Troll]

Means whenever I receive such mail I can explain this to all their friends as well as just them.

Yes, I have done this many times. Virus warnings, chain letters, urban legends, Viruses itself. However, people absolutely hate it when you do that: You get flames back stating "don't spam me", or "who the fuck are you?". Normal people don't understand email. Of course, it also might have to do with the fact that I often have a sarcastic undertone in my emails.

Re:Care to provide a link?

[ZenJabba1]

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie =UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=J%2EHoward%2EMP%40aph%2Egov%2Eau

Seems to work fine for me without a problem

Re:Australians reaping what they sowed

[Anonymous Coward]

My neighours lost their houses today. There is total devastition everywhere, and I'd still rather be here covered in ash than sharing a cave with you and your petty, immature, vengeful ideology. If you saw the scene here and the efforts of people to deal with it, you wouldn't make those comments, or you wouldn't be human. Suffering and tragedy don't know race or politics or ideology. Just be thankful you're not a part of this.

Re:Anti-American sentiment

[cranos]

How is this anti-american? Its a publicity stunt from the opposition party playing on our PM's well known techno-phobia.

I for one am glad the Labor party has finally settled on a platform re Iraq. To me it seems quite hipocritical to pound one dictatorship into the ground for suspision of having Weapons of Mass Destruction and yet play the softly softly game with another that we KNOW has Nukes.

Check your facts before you spout off.

Re:Get rid of aussie spam.

[h4mmer5tein]

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

How long do you think it will take them to write laws to kill spam and execute spammers?"

And this is a bad thing because........?

This is pointless

[bobthevirus]

Seems to me as though this isn't going anywhere anyway, i mean, how will we know that its the right address??

I don't like Feedback Forms (was: Email him here)

[Advocadus Diaboli]

I don't like those fancy feedback forms for some simple reasons:

1. They force me to fill out fields with things like my name or address and that's something what my email-client or my signature would provide automatically.
2. There is usually no way to store what I wrote there in my email archives. But I like to file my outgoing messages.
3. They always want my mail address but they want to hide their own mail address.

Sounds familiar

[popeydotcom]

The guys at Bloggerheads have been doing a similar task to find the email of Tony Blair (British PM for those not in the know).

Slightly different as Tony promised that he would release his email address, but so far has not. Quite funny, worth a read.

Re:Anybody got Saddam's e-mail address?

[Kamel Jockey]

Anybody got Saddam's e-mail address?

press@uruklink.net. This account was broken into recently as well. Although this is a "press" email, it is the one that appears on Saddam's own webpage.

Re:oh dear god

[sg_oneill]

Well, none. But us Aussies are quite gratefull of the letters (we read in newspapers) from american firefighters offering (and being frusturated about not being able to repay the aussie firefighters by coming over and helping).

I recon if politicians had as much international solidarity as firefighters seem to, war'd be an arcane memory from the history books.

We sure do get alot of fires down here, heck australian fires are probably the hottest (Eucalyptus trees oft burn at many thousands degrees +(celcius) , but this canbera thing is rather ungood.

That said there was a part of me that was hoping to see parliment on fire ;) [note for international kids;- Aussies tend not to be precious about our politicians.. So the nothing-sacred humor should be taken in that context]