I just got this (from somewhere across the pond.)

ReputationDefender, Inc.
2023 Cherokee Parkway
Suite #18
Louisville, KY 40204

January 14, 2007

Dear Mr. McNeil,

We are writing to you on behalf of Andrew Lane. He has asked us to
contact you and see if you will consider removing the content about
him
at:

http://uk.nntp2http.com/sci/weather/...b11284077.html

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Please let us know if you have removed or changed the content on this
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grateful if you could forward this message to him or her.


Yours sincerely,

Dave S.
ReputationDefender Service Team

I don't know why someone from a fairy high position in the BBC would
want to get a US firm in but I have to agree that what I said went too
close to the bone and will ask Google to remove the post. Besides any
chance of getting rid of the fool who set that damn computer graphics
chirrup on us to some place else should be jumped at.

I do however reserve the right to believe that some sort on punishment
should be meted out to whoever is responsible for the despicable sham
that the BBC foists of on us in the name of weather forecasting.

And whilst I have your attention, if you have any clout at the BBC,
can you get those silly women in out of the dark? You make it look as
though they don't have the sense to come in out of the rain.

I sincerely hope no one kills you at my behest. (I can't say the same
thing for The Chimp but I suppose if the inevitable happens there I
will lose some sleep over it.)

Whilst on the subject of the Americans, can you point me to whoever is
in charge of Top Gear so I can ask the team to have a go at the small
minds in the weather dept the way they had a go at the rednecks in the
USA?