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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. Anti-war petitions by Kingpin · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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?

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  2. Re:Get rid of aussie spam. by h4mmer5tein · · Score: 4, Interesting
    "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........?