-------- Original Message -------- Subject: PreparingForEmergencies.co.uk Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 13:46:22 +0100 From: Thomas Scott <thomas@private> To: declan@private Hi Declan, Possibly one for politech. As you may or may not know, the UK .gov is sending out leaflets on what to do in an emergency (read: terrorist attack, not that we want you to panic, although if you panicked a bit and voted for us again it'd be nice) to every household in the UK. As part of this, they registered www.preparingforemergencies.gov.uk . Pity they forgot to register www.preparingforemergencies.co.uk , really. I managed to grab it, and hastily cobbled together a parody. (The original's under Crown Copyright, and the parody is so ridiculous as to have no chance of misleading those looking for the genuine info. It includes information on coping with a zombie attack, for crying out loud.) I got a few pleasant emails, including one saying that the site had done the rounds of the top emergency planning civil servants. And then, not twelve hours after the original site went up, I got this one... I considered giving up, but heck -- it's a parody, it's obviously a parody, and I'm damned if I'm going to be strongarmed into taking it down. As a concession, I added a conspicuous "this is a parody" notice to the bottom of the home page. -- Thomas Scott thomas@private -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Preparing For Emergencies Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 12:15:49 +0100 From: [removed]@gov.uk To: 'thomas@private' <thomas@private> Dear Mr Scott, Regarding your website, www.preparingforemergencies.co.uk We run the Government website for the Preparing for Emergencies public information campaign, on www.preparingforemergencies.gov.uk, and are very concerned that the material on your site will confuse people about the sensitive advice and information that we are giving to the public. This is a very is serious campaign that should not be trivialised. In the interests of helping people to cope in the event of a crisis or a disaster we would ask that you to take down the site, immediately, and not put it up again in another guise. Sincerely, [removed] www.preparingforemergencies.gov.uk _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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