If you're not familiar with the grand saga of Bill Purdy, the Washington Post, and the Italian Domain Name Bandit, see: http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=purdy Bill's SkippyPeanutButter.org redirects to a PleaseDontKillYourBaby.com URL and includes as a headline "America's Best Killing Peanut Butter." -Declan --- From: "William S. Purdy" <wpurdyat_private> To: "Declan McCullagh" <declanat_private> Subject: Some of what I am up to now Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 21:06:31 -0500 Dear Declan, It just so happens that I have been trying to eat more healthier recently, and everything I read absolutely DEPLORES the fact that HYDROGENATED OIL and PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED OIL is in 90% of the processed food we eat, and that it is 5 times worse for clogging our hearts than butter. Recently their was a lawsuit that was filed (and then self-dismissed) regarding this very issue of hydrogenated oil in Oreo Cookies which you probably heard about. Well, it so happens that UNTIL RECENTLY I have been eating Skippy Peanut butter almost daily since 1955, or at least that's when I first remember eating it at age 5. I also UNTIL RECENTLY fed it to all of my 5 children, and one of my two grand children. Now I know better, and I have decided to try and prevent others from following my former UNHEALTHY habits of eating Skippy Peanut Butter. Thus I have created the following sites at www.SKIPPYPEANUTBUTTER.ORG and www.SKIPPYPEANUTBUTTER.NET which are take-offs on www.SkippyPeanutButter.com. (The site was built on my PleaseDontKillYourBaby.com but although somewhat apropos, this has absolutely NOTHING to do with abortion or my anti-abortion beliefs.) I am sending this to you for your information, and you are welcome to share it with your readers if you so choose. These sites have been up for about two weeks, but so far I haven't heard anything from Skippy. Perhaps they'll tell you what they think, as I have NOT notified any other News Person as of yet, nor will I until I hear from you whether you are going to pursue this as a story or not. Hope the summer weather is treating you well. Yours, Bill Purdy ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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