The fax machine is almost
obsolete now, but perhaps it’s just as well that John Howard faxed his
statement to Liberal MPs yesterday rather than emailing it. Liberal HQ
emailed copies to its mailing list in the afternoon; when mine arrived,
my email client had added a note at the
top: “Thunderbird thinks this message might be an email scam.”
Spam filter sees through Howard
The fax machine is almost obsolete now, but perhaps it’s just as well that John Howard faxed his statement to Liberal MPs yesterday rather than emailing it. Liberal HQ emailed copies to its mailing list in the afternoon; when mine arrived, my email client had added a note at thetop: “Thunderbird thinks this message might […]
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Charles Richardson has contributed to Crikey since 2002, and was a ministerial adviser in the Kennett government and a former editorial manager at the Centre for Independent Studies in Sydney.
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