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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."
Once the PM's email is made public, he will get tons of spam.
He's probably more concerned about getting "flamed" right now.
Providing a Feedback form rather than just an email address is a very good way of limiting the spam that the PM would receive.
this is a pretty funny publicity stunt.
as the labor party is well aware, federal politician's email addresses are pseudonyms and changed quickly if they fall into the 'wrong hands'.
furthermore all senior federal politicians have access to the other email addresses, so the labor party already has johnny's email address.
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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Geocrawler error message.
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 {} \;`
I hope you're not suggesting that:
a) Australians can't be nerds or geeks
b) that finding little Johnny's email address isn't a valid exercise for said nerds and geeks
Maybe there are just a lot of us around. And, after all, where does Samba come from?
Alister
doing a search on yahoo.com (people search) is normally a pretty good start, and, a few interesting ones i found in the list of 200 or so are:
gstjohnny yahoo.com.au
john_howard_pm_2000 yahoo.com.au
pm_john_howard hotmail.com
johnhowardmp yahoo.com
nakedhornyguy yahoo.com (hahaha)
now, first - i have to apologize to all those other John Howards out there (yes, even the multiple in australia) for having to share this name - i really cannot believe the guy is still in power.
oh.. and, how many guys will respond for a measy crate of coke and $100 or linux software? (isn't most linux software = free?). maybe someone at SMH just wants john to be spammed.
Australians have no problem (well, I don't) in admitting their faults, and have no motivation to pretend that they are holy or righteous when in fact they aren't.
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........?
Fark is running a make fun of slashdot photoshop thread -- simply priceless.
Criminals? Actually Australians are most likely to be a blend of many different cultures... and generally we are a racially tolarant country. Most of them are people that have chosen to come and live in our great country... and when I look at your DMCA etc, i truly believe that Australia is the real Land of the Free.
;)
:D
I'm fortunate to live in a country whose leaders dont see it as their business to poke into the affairs of other nations. I think its great that in every crisis we can get away with sending a few rowboats and a handful of troops to keep dictator Bush happy.
Our nation is of peace and tolerance. The US seems to be about profit and imposing its 'freedoms' on others by force.
Im proud to be Australian.
Please dont take enclosed joke too seriously
There was an Aussie, an American and an African father in the maternity ward... and the nurse announces that all the births were successful, however the staff had got the babies mixed up. The fathers would have to go in and identify their child. So the Aussie grabs the African baby and says 'This black one must be mine!'. 'Surely sir this is the African mans baby?'. 'Well, maybe... but one of the others is American, and i cant take that risk'
Karma: Rock Bottom, mostly due to insulting all the american mods
those who control the past, control the future. those who control the present, control the past.
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:
3. The original poster was trolling. Don't feed the trolls! TIA.
Why email Saddam Hussein? If you have followed recent news you will find that it is the US that is about to invade Iraq, not the other way around.
I bet that the coming US invasion of Iraq will end up in this list pretty soon...
j.howard.mp@aph.gov.au might be the correct address, but I would guess it just forwards to whoever is looking after whatever Mr Howard's portfolio was at that time (you didn't give a date to the usenet posting).
A little birdy told me (I briefly worked in the Australian Federal Public Service a long time ago, and I have a few friends that still do) to try pm@pm.gov.au instead. Though I'm betting it forwards to the same place that web site form seems to go to - webmaster@pm.gov.au.
Anyway, I don't really see the point of this "competition", even from a publicity stunt point of view. No one REALLY thinks that the Australian PM (or the US President or the French President etc) sits at his desk each morning, opens up Outlook/KMail/whatever and checks his incoming email, do they?
Maybe they think the PM opens all his own mail too. And that he really does write every word of every document that has his signature on it...
> 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.