Danny O'Brien reports on the difficulties of running the FaxYourMP service:
We notice that in your mailout, you suggest people "forward the mail to anyone you think might be able to help". Unfortunately, you don't provide any date or details of when the [Bugbear] will end its passage through Parliament.
This is a very bad thing to do to us, and the Internet in general. That's because of what's known as the "Craig Shergold" problem…
Basically, not only have you diminished the worth of every fax that runs through our service, not only have you cost us a fair bit relaying a bunch of identical faxes that will go straight into the bin – and not the recycling bin, either – but you've also potentially doomed us to months or even years of fending off people who will persist on faxing their MP the obsolete details of a Bill that the MPs have already voted on.
