Re: verizon (ptui!)

On Wed, 12 Jan 2011 15:16:58 +1000, Mark L Pappin wrote:
ObASR:

Very wet (to understate it) here in se.qld.au, and the emergency
services have been using Farcebalk et al to alert the Great Unwashed
rather than their own public websites. A side effect of this has been
Gummint depts (and presumably other employers) loosening their own
filters to allow staff to see such sites, normally blocked as
timewasters.

Instead of or in addition to their normal websites? The local gov't
Even among people that fancy themselves well-informed and prepared,
that local gov't website isn't generally on the "refresh hourly" list,
and probably isn't even a daily visit.

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not face-concealing ones.
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