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- From: wcs@anchor.ho.att.com (Bill Stewart +1-908-949-0705)
- Subject: Re: [misc.activism.progressive] Clinton Office Requests Comments
- Organization: Mary Ellen Carter Salvage Crew
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 18:41:35 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: au329@cleveland.Freenet.Edu's message of 27 Dec 1992 03:39:25 GMT
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- In article <1hj8hdINN92d@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> au329@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ronda Hauben) writes:
- >>Is there any E-Mail address for Congress? I was told by Senator Paul
- >>Simon's Office that The U.S. Congress has email communication
- >>internally among Congress but that the public is NOT ALLOWED to
- >>have access to it.
- >>I want to be able to send E-Mail to Simon's Office. Does anyone
- >>know of any way to do so?
- >>It seems archaic that there is no electronic access via email for
- >>the public to the U.S. Congress.
-
-
- My Congresscritter gets about 1 million letters per year.
- Email to the office would be practical; email to Himself wouldn't.
- It's just too many letters.
-
- The staff tries to read them all :-), and only extremely interesting
- ones get passed on to him for reading, though many routine things like
- "why is my social security check late" or "can my kid go to West Point"
- get handed to him for signing. Letters obviously coming from
- organized letter-writing campaigns get piled together and the
- pro and con piles are mainly compared by how many pounds or inches
- of mail the different sides can generate .....
- letters that appear to be from real individuals do better.
- Stuff with money attached gets more attention :-)
-
- Telegrams get attention, because they cost more than paper-mail and
- are generally short; faxes do ok, pre-printed-postcards get piled.
- I'd guess that email to a congressional office could get managed
- adequately, though it will take a while before they learn to give it
- treatment similar to what they give paper-mail.
- --
- # Pray for peace; Bill
- # Bill Stewart 1-908-949-0705 wcs@anchor.att.com AT&T Bell Labs 4M312 Holmdel NJ
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