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Battle of the village websites!
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Old 09-04-2005, 13:31   #1
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Battle of the village websites!

Two villages in England......... two websites...... two completely different codes of ethics

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The naughty website is My Publicity Stunt Is Better Than Yours which has it's own page/spin on the tale which talks about.......



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Battle of the websites!
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A hilarious story of the battle of the two lyneham websites!

A story of obsession and jealously.....

Warning: The following page contains very boring information relating to the actions of the other website.
Why not print it of and take it with you next time you have a crap!





Is this spoof website a case of bad publicity for the village, as claimed by the quaint site or is it another case of all publicity is good publicity ?
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Re: Battle of the village websites!

On the pope jokes, even though it will cause offence, i'd like to think freedom of speech should protect Hawkins here. I think giving him an ASBO for making a poor taste joke, is ridiculous. You don't like his jokes? Then don't read his website.

With the whole fued between the two websites, I do have a bit of sympathy for the original website If Hawkins is causing controversy, then it always reflects on the other website, even though they have nothing to do with each other.

The company I work for get this all the time. Our website has a similar name to ours (only a hypen difference), and appear to trade under our name registered in Companies House (which would be illegal if they did, but they only appear to, rather than actually use it). However it confuses people no end. We get plenty of angry people we've never heard of accusing them of screwing up their holidays, because they looked at our website and thought it was the company's website that they booked their holiday with.

Having said that, because they are calling, it is like free advertising. Our manager here is so good at selling, he can sell sand to the Arabs with a highly inflated price, so sometimes that's an advantage, but other times its a pain in the neck. Especially when you are trying to convince them you aren't who they think you are, and they just think you are trying to pull a fast one.
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