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After all that hard work…
If you were looking for a post about the threats made on Values Australia by the Department of Immigration and Citizenship…well, it’s vanished into thin air, along with all the comments. Actually, it vanished in a “chassis swap” of the server (without notice). “Everything went well” they said. Except we lost a week’s worth of data and a couple of posts. If anyone has a copy of them we’d appreciate a copy of the copy (to roger.migentlyATvaluesaustralia.com.au).
If you are looking for a good webhost we recommend a wide berth around HostGator. Their once legendary service is becoming slack and insincere and they tend to blame the customer. Plus their promised daily backups are apparently days old. Trouble is, migrating to another host is a big and time-consuming job, and who can be sure that a new host won’t turn out to be another HostGator?
Anyway…
…the surreal letter from Bob Correll to Values Australia and Values Australia‘s reply will be posted here in the next day or two, with an invitation to spread them around as much as you like (please).
Posted: March 27th, 2007 under Australian Values.
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Pingback from Club Troppo » Missing Link
Time: 22 March, 2007, 2:26 am
[...] Roger Migently from Values Australia is apparently being not-so-gently rogered by lawyers from the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (as it’s now called after deletion of Aborigines and multiculturalism from its masthead), who assert that his styling of his blog as “The Department of Citizenship” on some pages might be misleading and deceptive!! Without wishing to give legal advice, it sounds like complete frog shit to me. Maybe it’s time for the blogosphere to start biting back over this sort of nonsense. How do prominent bloggers like Tim Blair or Tim Dunlop feel about this sort of bullying behaviour. If they highlighted and conedmned it in an election year, I suspect Howard would rapidly tell DIC (as its acronym now reads) to withdraw. (more editorialising, I know I know – KP) [...]
Comment from zebbidie
Time: 22 March, 2007, 12:15 pm
Looks like vaguely threatening crap to me — if they had an actual law you’d broken, they would have gone for a cease-and-desist order, served it on your provider and you’d have had the ground cut out from under you.
I think the best defence in this situation is publicity. Nothing sterilises the bacillus of public service officiousness and bullying like the light of day….
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