A couple of months or so ago an FMLer posted a URL to an SPCA site in LA
full of blatant mistruths about our ferts, including "no rabies vaccine",
"several vet/animal groups are pressing to keep them illegal", "they're
banned in six states" and a bunch of other BS.  I copied the whole pile of
junk into a mail message, debunked it (politely) point by point, and sent it
to as many addresses on their site as I could find.  I concluded by pointing
out that if their fert info has as many factual errors as this, can anything
else on their "ask the vet" section be trusted as accurate?
 
Well, I just got the following back:
 
From: SpcaLAGN <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thursday, January 22, 1998 11:26 AM
Subject: ferrets
*MIME-Version: 1.0
*Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
*Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
 
>Thank you for your observations concerning our web site.  The factual
>errors in our ferret answer have been corrected and we appreciate you
>bringing that to our attention.  Please take a look at the amended version.
 
The URL in question is:
http://losangeles.digitalcity.com/spcala/htmls/animal_info/vet/vet_exotic.
       html
 
and without question, it's a huge improvement.  A bit on the "dry, factual
and unbiased" side but nothing *I'd* complain about.  I thanked them
profusely; with any luck the research they must have done to verify my
claims (and those of other FMLers) must have given them way more insight
into the measure.  I also replied to the above and told them it was a
horrified post to the FML that pointed me to the problem in the first place,
and that I'd give a favorable review back to the FML on the corrections.
 
If you lack web access, I'll private EMail their new text to anyone who asks
me for it...it's a bit big for the FML.
 
It's a small step, but worth doing...
 
Jim March
 
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 For a wild true story of crooked cops, stolen guns, perjury, fraud
 and false criminal charges, see http://www.infinex.com/~jmarch
[Posted in FML issue 2195]