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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 07:49:28 EST
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- From: PAUL BRUCKER <BRUCKEPJ@SNYCENVM.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: Congressional E-mail
- In-Reply-To: Message of Tue,
- 26 Jan 1993 15:57:08 GMT from <kkopp@UXH.CSO.UIUC.EDU>
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- On Tue, 26 Jan 1993 15:57:08 GMT koppenhoefer kyle cramm said:
- > The first question is: Is congress on e-mail ?
- >
- > If so, where can I find a list of their addresses. I am particularly
- >interested in Illinois congressmen.
-
- I gleaned this from the Village Voice...
-
- ...ISIS (Integrated Systems and Information Services), which gets
- hooked up this month, will allow any lawmaker who requests it to
- have e-mail access to the global Internet computer network and all
- of the so-called X.400 e-mail gateways, which include AT&T Mail,
- MCI Mail, and other business-oriented systems. All told, ISIS will
- allow Congress to reach out to nearly every significant business
- leader, researcher, and educator in the free world--tens of millions
- of people. Yet the plan omits one key detail: Publishing a directory
- of electronic mail addresses so that *you* can write to *them*.
-
- "A lot of congressmen are not to keen on that," says James P. Love,
- director of Ralph Nader's Taxpayer Assets Project. "Several members
- have Internet access right now, but it doesn't do much good [for
- citizens] unless you have their address, and they consider that
- private." The reason Congress wants to retain that privacy is obvious:
- legislators already consider themselves besieged by numerous interest
- groups--the last thing they want is to give the electorate another
- medium for getting in touch with them.
-
- Article written by Joe Abernathy.
-
-
- Paul
- bruckepj@snycenvm
-