Faxyourmp.com finally ceased to exist today. The faxing service that originally appeared as part of stand.org.uk waaaaaaaaaaaaay back in '98, morphed into faxyourmp.com in 2000, won a bazillion awards, delivered somewhere in the region of 110,000 faxes to parliament on a budget of a few hundred quid, with source code so bit-rotted and ancient that no-one could remember how it worked (and as long as no-one touched it, it continued to) is no more. We'd had enough, knackered, finished, bored.
However, this is truly excellent news, because it has been replaced by WriteToThem.com, which does exactly the same thing but allows people to contact not just their MPs, but also their Councillors, MEPs, MSPs, London Assembly Members, Welsh Assembly Members, traffic wardens and dustmen all over the UK. It's a one stop shop for letting your representatives know what you think.
It bloody rocks.
It's a MySociety.org project, an organisation slowly proving that despite all the evidence to the contrary, it is possible for the civic activist sector to work with the government and survive, sanity intact.
Well done, Tom, Chris, Francis, Matthew, and everybody else involved.
(I don't count, since my contributions mostly consisted of moaning loudly, but not, y'know, in a good way)