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Old February 22nd 06, 04:42 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Paul Paul is offline
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Default The Sponsored Tube Map

On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 12:12:53 -0000, John Rowland wrote:

I have to admit I gave a resigned sigh when I read your message, but having
looked at the map I think its absolutely hilarious!


Heh

Thanks for all the kind feedback, everyone.

However, having just seen the following, I'm a bit worried about the
prospects of it staying online much longer:

| Transport for London censors anagram Tube map
|
| The hilarious remixed London Tube map that substituted anagrams
| of the station names has been censored off the Internet by lawyers
| working for Transport for London. The page now reads, "Content
| removed at the request of Healeys Solicitors acting on behalf of
| Transport for London and Transport Trading Ltd."

(From http://www.boingboing.net/2006/02/22...or_london.html)

Presumably I'll be the next one to feel the heavy hand of copyright law.

On the other hand, it might not be such a bad thing: yesterday, in the
map's first day of availability, it got 6500 hits, causing nearly 1.5GB
of bandwidth to be used. I don't know what my ISP's acceptable use
policy is for webspace, but that's surely got to be pushing it!

Paul