heheheone guy piped up this morning with the simple yet eloquent statement:
yo! legalise it!!!
:o)
Now, I could be nasty and go straight out and use this as leverage, but two things have resulted from this article:
1) The statement from Downing Street regarding this read as follows:
‘We have plans to introduce an e-mail address for the Prime Minister in the near future, but we have set no date set yet.’
2) The journalist who wrote the piece asked me a very interesting question at the close of the interview. He asked if I would be willing to set up the service personally and you know, I actually had to think about that for a second or two. The answer? Yes, I would. In fact, yes I could.
I’ve done some research on the number of search queries made for Tony Blair’s email address and I’m estimating from that a total of 10,000 emails a month. I talked to a service provider that can not only handle the email, but also scan it for any nasty viruses along the way (being a published address, it will be vulnerable to attacks – automated and otherwise). These guys do some serious work at a local government level and have dealt with beefier back-ends and higher processing requirements than this.
I’m also in a unique position in that I know how to publicise the address in search engines. I could have the service set up in a week. A week. Search engine results would be live in Google within days following launch, and I’m pretty sure I can expedite quite a few other results given my list of contacts combined with the nature and importance of the content.
Haven’t set a date? How’s a week from tomorrow sound?
I’ll get back to you and let you know what the folks in charge have to say about it all.
(yo! legalise it!!!
:o)
Now, I could be nasty and go straight out and use this as leverage, but two things have resulted from this article:
1) The statement from Downing Street regarding this read as follows:
‘We have plans to introduce an e-mail address for the Prime Minister in the near future, but we have set no date set yet.’
2) The journalist who wrote the piece asked me a very interesting question at the close of the interview. He asked if I would be willing to set up the service personally and you know, I actually had to think about that for a second or two. The answer? Yes, I would. In fact, yes I could.
I’ve done some research on the number of search queries made for Tony Blair’s email address and I’m estimating from that a total of 10,000 emails a month. I talked to a service provider that can not only handle the email, but also scan it for any nasty viruses along the way (being a published address, it will be vulnerable to attacks – automated and otherwise). These guys do some serious work at a local government level and have dealt with beefier back-ends and higher processing requirements than this.
I’m also in a unique position in that I know how to publicise the address in search engines. I could have the service set up in a week. A week. Search engine results would be live in Google within days following launch, and I’m pretty sure I can expedite quite a few other results given my list of contacts combined with the nature and importance of the content.
Haven’t set a date? How’s a week from tomorrow sound?
I’ll get back to you and let you know what the folks in charge have to say about it all.
Manic can teach you the secret of fire,
Wed 9 Oct 2002, 9:14,
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