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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.
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 {} \;`
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.
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.
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...