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12 October 2002

UK members of parliament don’t tend to read their email so the web to fax gateway FaxYourMP.com is a real boon in putting constituents in touch with their elected representatives quickly and easily. Unfortunately, MPs don’t always read their faxes either, according to some interesting statistics just published by the site. In fact, the Conservative leader, Iain Duncan Smith joined a rogues gallery of 26 MPs who have not responded to any faxes, including six who have publicly stated they will not respond to any.

I tried to use faxyourmp to contact my own MP, Jeremy Corbyn, some time ago and was among the 75% of faxes sent to him which have remained un-acknowledged…

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Filed under:Online media at3:28 pm

Arts & Letters Daily has bitten the dust. Oh nooo! Won’t somebody please come up with a few £s to pay Tran Huu Dung and Denis Dutton to do their fine work of coming up with good arts and culture links? Meanwhile, people who like A & L can check out Denis Dutton’s Philosophy & Literature site which looks rather similar and Arts Journal.

(Later) I also just discovered that Satirewire has bitten the dust (though at least it was because of creative burnout instead of dotcom flameout).

Filed under:Spam at2:49 pm

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Register with this site (free) and you get an address which will forward email sent to it to any address you like, but will filter it to remove spam first. I haven’t tried it but it sounds useful. The main drawback is that it also appends a short advertisement at the bottom of every email it filters.