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- From: c23st@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com (Spiros Triantafyllopoulos)
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- Subject: Re: Congress email addresses?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.175734.21494@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 17:57:34 GMT
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- In article <1edu1rINN26c@nigel.msen.com> emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti) writes:
- >I would be perfectly happy to get canned responses from my representative's
- >mail-based server, or to speak with members of staff and not the big
- >cheese himself, or to browse through the House or Senate gopher server.
-
- I can already see it... each senator/representative gets, say, a node
- or two on congress.gov. Then we can email them directly, or to the
- congressional server for document requests, polls, etc.
-
- But, I have a bad feeling that just like 'franking', the policy of sending
- free mail to ones' constituents, 'email franking' will be abused till
- hell freezes over.
-
- It takes little effort for whoever is running the show to send email to
- all addresses in, say, a state; Then, once everyone figures it out,
- kiloMUTLU's (the kiloMUTLU is my personal unit of USENET volume)
- of 'vote for me' messages will choke the net... Guaranteed.
-
- >What do we need to do, volunteer to go to DC ourselves and put this
- >together? It is just not that hard.
-
- Vote for Perot in four years (:-) ^ n)
-
- Spiros
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