[ILUG] Excessive ministerial correspondence

[Timothy Murphy]

Dear Gurus,

I recently wrote to a government minister (Mary Hanafin)
about the strange treatment of a local bus service,
the Patton Flyer (Dalkey to Airport), which has been refused a licence
although it has been running (possibly illegally) for some years.

However, this is not about the Dalkey Flyer
but about the response I got from the minister's office.
Every day I get 30--40 copies of a formal reply, starting
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From: 
"David Murray, CO" <DAVID.MURRAY at welfare.ie>
  To: 
Timothy Murphy <tim at maths.tcd.ie>
  Date: 
Today 09:08:47
   
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Timothy

Many thanks for your email concerning the Patton Flyer.

I will forward this to the Minister for a response, in order to
keep this on file could you please forward a full postal
address.

Kind Regards

David Murray
Minister's Office 
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I should say that I got a long, rational email from the minister
some time ago, outlining the long history of the dispute 
and the rationale (unconvincing) of the decision not to license the Flyer.

But I still get this flood of identical replies every day from Mr Murray.
I wrote to him asking if he could stop the flood,
but that has had no effect.

Now I am wondering if it could possibly be a fault at my end,
or conceivably at TCD Maths Dept who the email comes from?
Any enlightenment gratefully received.

Here are the complete headers of one of the messages:
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-- 
Timothy Murphy  
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland