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- From: russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Russell Schulz)
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- Subject: Re: E-Mail Access to Congress (Was Re: Clinton Office Requests Comments
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- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 23:04:37 MST
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- johnch@test22.sun.com (Where are the Prawns?) writes:
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- >> I doubt the White House would want its email addresses known. My son is
- >> working for the Transition Team filtering mail, and they're still trying
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- > You must have a truly nightmarish excuse for a mail reader. With
- > mine, I can display a single message much more quickly than I can open
- > an envelope, I don't have to decipher anyone's handwriting, and I can
- > throw it into the appropriate electronic pile with a few keystrokes.
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- not to mention the piece I saw on CNN the other day about them investing
- some serious dollars into optical character recognition hard/software, so
- they could filter resumes (and grep for certain combinations of words)
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- I _believe_ it was the transition team they were talking about.
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- > The only advantages of paper mail that I can think of are 1. you don't
- > need a computer to read it and 2. you can use the huge pile of torn
- > envelopes to start a nice fire.
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- 0. you don't need to be at a computer, connected to other computers,
- to send it. I am. how many competent-but-not-Net-connected aren't?
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- if there's an appropriate group for this, please followup there.
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- Russell Schulz russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca ersys!rschulz Shad 86c
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