A Funny Email
You remember, way back, that the Citizens for a Responsible Curriculum bought the dot-com version of our domain name and pointed it at their site, so if you typed "www.teachthefacts.com" instead of ".org" you'd go to their web page. Just another case of the ends justifying the means, I suppose -- their mission of interrupting the school district's development of a new sex-ed course is so important that it doesn't matter what they have to do to accomplish it.
Anyway, the funny side-effect of that is that sometimes we get email addressed to them.
This one came the other day, I thought you might get a kick out of it:
Then signed by this teacher.
After a brief exchange of messages, we got things figured out.
Anyway, the funny side-effect of that is that sometimes we get email addressed to them.
This one came the other day, I thought you might get a kick out of it:
You people make me and millions around the country sick.
As a gay teacher who works with these students each and every day... you should be ashamed of yourselves. Go home and take a long look in the mirror at yourselves and figure out why you hate yourself so much and why your internal homophobia feeds that hate.
Then signed by this teacher.
After a brief exchange of messages, we got things figured out.
posted by JimK at 9:28 AM
6 Comments:
They way they've set things up between the .com version of your domain and their own is also not kosher. Search engines don't want to see identical sites under two different domain names. When you've got two of them, you're supposed to set one of them up as the primary and set the other up to automatically redirect folks to the first.
So, they risk having both sites dropped from search engine listings with this technique.
"Just another case of the ends justifying the means, I suppose -- their mission of interrupting the school district's development of a new sex-ed course is so important that it doesn't matter what they have to do to accomplish it."
Oh yeah, that whole website name scam is a real crime against humanity.
Those CRCers will do anything! Have these people no decency? Think of the victims of this dastardly action.
Wait a minute. Who are the victims?
"So, they risk having both sites dropped from search engine listings with this technique."
In the words of Al Gore:
It sounds like a risky scheme!
Andrea- not anon
Yes, the whole stealing a similar webname a la CRC and some Repuke who ran against Chris Van Hollen isn't a huge deal. However, considering that these people pretend to be so HTT and religious and just so much better than everyone else- there is the issue. Cheating to get their point across? Can't they do it honestly?is that what such God-fearing people need to do? Not a big deal -really- but amazingly hypocritical for those who constantly claim religion and God on their side.
Andrea
"However, considering that these people pretend to be so HTT and religious and just so much better than everyone else"
I don't remember "these people" ever saying anything like this. Can you provide some examples?
Is it honest to manipulate people's attempts to read one thing (views other than your own), and mislead them into reading another (your own) an honest act? This strikes me as a type of deception, or lying. As I've said before, isn't there a commandment against that?
Robert
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