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- From: ronda@ais.org (Ronda Hauben)
- Subject: Re: E-Mail Access to Congress (Was Re: Clinton Office Requests Comments
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- Date: Fri, 01 Jan 93 11:23:32 EST
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- Daniel Romanchik (danr@ais.org) wrote:
- : While I would like to be able to e-mail messages to my congressperson,
- : I don't think it really opens up access all that much. What percentage
- : of the population actually have e-mail access? The only thing e-mail
- : will do is open access to the priviledged few who knowhow to work with
- : computers and have access to e-mail. And, as others have pointed out,
- : it's just as easy to ignore e-mail as regular mail.
- :
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- Well if there were email access then it would be an encouragement
- for more people to access email.
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- I don't have the ability to fax - but I'm not opposed to fax
- access to Congress so why are you opposed to E-mail access to Congress?
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- The point is that Congress has email access among itself but the
- public is barred from that access.
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- We're paying for Congress's email access and we are barred from it.
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- Congress is obliged to do things publicly and email access would increase
- their public accessibility.
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- This is a new avenue to involve the public in the activities of
- Congress.
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- We'll see how easy it is for Congress to ignore us once we have
- email and online access!
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- ronda
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