[ga] Re: [Politech] Brit officials peeved over PreparingForEmergencies.co.uk parody [fs]

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Declan, Thomas and all,

  ROFLMAO! After viewing the web site in question/contention and
considering the political season in full swing in the US, I have got to
believe that some brits as well as current US administration folks are
no doubt a bit irritated by this one as it doesn't nicely embellish the
current US or Brit administrations.

  However there is always WIPO to address this domain name
dispute as  ICANN's Esther Dyson terribly provided for...  HaHa...

Declan McCullagh wrote:

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: PreparingForEmergencies.co.uk
> Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 13:46:22 +0100
> From: Thomas Scott <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: declan@xxxxxxxx
>
> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Preparing For Emergencies
> Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 12:15:49 +0100
> From: [removed]@gov.uk
> To: 'thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> 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
>
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