Danny of ntk reports that [a Big Charity] has asked their members, and their friends, and whoever the hell else they feel like forwarding stuff to, to use the excellent FaxYourMP.com service to (perhaps unintentionally) spam MPs about [Particular Bugbear of Theirs]. FaxYourMP.com rather spectacularly died thanks to the load, but most critically …

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.

Pity, because in a democracy like ours, it’s a bloody useful service, provided gratis by people who believe in “ze cause”. Bad [Big Charity].