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New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has been on a crusade against spammers and spyware companies, but it's a wonder anyone actually knows about it. I called yesterday asking to get on the press list and Spitzer's office told me they only send out news releases via fax.
Fax? I mean that's not even retro enough to be cool. If they said, Citizen's Band radio or shortwave radio, or even better, telegrams, that would be cool. But faxes? That's 1980's uncool, like Alex P. Keaton uncool. Since I don't feel like wasting toner and paper on routine press releases, I did some quick research on e-faxes and found one place that might not cost more than $30 a year for a phone number somewhere in Chicago that will forward PDFs to my inbox.
But that's just absurd -- I ain't wasting cash on an e-version of an outmoded technology. BUT, Spitzer's office does have a web page with press releases (although I don't know if the faxes come before or after the news is posted online).
So to help you intrepid reporters and bloggers out there who also think a faxed press release is just stinking stupid, I used FeedTier to create an RSS feed of the press releases, and then used RSSFWD: to create a press list from the RSS feed (subscribe here). Don't tell Spitzer though, he'd probably find some statute to sue me with.
Posted by Ryan Singel at April 5, 2006 11:40 AM
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