From: Brad Dolan <bdolan@use.usit.net>
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 95 04:51:23 PDT
To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>
Subject: Re: Free The World Web Server project.. :)
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FWIW:

The Christian Science Monitor ran an article a week or so ago, reporting
that Congressional mail loads have doubled in the last three years, that 
it's inconvenient to deal with all that mail, and nobody is paying any 
attention to their mail any more.

I've never had a meaningful response from any of my (non-) representatives.

Representative government, hah!

bd

On Wed, 19 Jul 1995, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

> 
> MONTY HARDER writes:
> > PE> would be discerned by a staffer in moments. Crap like this is called
> > 
> >   They should know, because they send form letters to constituents all
> > the time, only they don't bother to vary it a bit.
> 
> Misdirection. This has nothing to do with my point. The staffers will
> STILL toss your stuff.
> 
> > PE> "astroturf" by staffers, to distinguish it from "grass roots" efforts.
> > 
> >   Meanwhile, back at the ranch.
> 
> In other words, you are choosing to ignore me. Regardless of whether
> you are paying attentoion, however, you will still not be able to
> alter the facts of life in Washington.
> 
> > .. If one of our DC members can set up an
> > Imail-FAX gateway, we can publicize some nifty Iddresses for folx to
> 
> Perhaps people who can be bothered to spell out "folks" properly also
> are willing to write letters that will be paid attention to. As you
> seem to prefer to ignore the fact that you will be ignored, why are
> you willing to spend effort setting up an "Imail[sic]-FAX gateway"?
> 
> .pm
>