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- From: bew@brahms.udel.edu (Ben Williams)
- Subject: Re: Internet Connection to Congress
- Message-ID: <C192Ls.KI@news.udel.edu>
- Summary: Email would make great mechanism for polling constituents' views
- Sender: Ben Williams
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- Organization: University of Delaware
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 10:03:26 GMT
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- In article <1ja4sjINN5rd@slab.mtholyoke.edu> jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz) writes:
- <stuff censored... err, deleted>
- ;
- ; What's much more important IMHO is that Government data and statistics
- ; be available to /me/ electronically, and they screwed that up quite
- ; royally, but that's another story.
- ; --
- ; Jurgen Botz, jbotz@mtholyoke.edu
- ; Northampton, MA, USA
-
-
- Yes, the really interesting thing to do would be to have all government
- documents online at the beck and call of your personal computer. Wow, that
- would help people be able to back up what they are saying much more
- conveniently. (I'd like to hear this "story" if it's not TOO depressing)
-
- As for e-mail, first of all I don't forsee a real big increase in the amount
- of communication our reps receive if they do make it available (I think the
- inhabitants of this net.world are still a pretty small percentage of the
- population, and unfortunately, not a good cross section thereof). But if
- it did catch on in a big way, e-mail would become mail given the lowest
- priority I would think, since its ease makes it easier to send junk and
- in general not well thought out arguments or positions (needless to say :-).
- But if that did happen, receiving an old fashioned scribed-on-a-dead-tree
- type letter will seem so much more impressive than it does now. Then THAT
- would get their attention.
-
- But e-mail would be great for letting congressman/representatives know how
- their constituents feel about any particular issue. There could be a form you
- could send that could be processed automatically. This would be an excellant
- use!
-
- Ben.
-
- --
- Ben Williams
- bew@brahms.udel.edu
-
- What we got here is a failure to communicate...
-