On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 03:17:34AM -0800, David Guntner said: > Glad I was able to provide some useful information. Unfortunately, even > though othe US congress is (slowly :) moving into the electronic age, they > don't take as much note (if any, really) of E-Mail. It's easy to send, and > they get tons of it - and it's just electrons on the screen. Paper mail, > on the other hand, takes some effort to send and presents them with > something physical. So it carries a lot more weight then E-Mail does. > I've heard this said before and I am so tempted to test this by sending an e-mail and a snail mail saying that I would like to make a small donation to the congressman/senator and how would I go about doing it. If they don't respond to the e-mail, you know they're not reading it at all. :)
> There's an online petition at http://www.PetitionOnline.com/SSSCA/ which I > did "sign." But I also realize that it won't carry much weight (if any). > So I just spent the last hour and a half tracking down addresses for my > various reps and senators, and printing out letters to mail. :-) > Another way is to call them up directly, identify yourself as a constituent and say you are registering your opposition to the proposed bill and would like to know what your senator/congressman's position is on it. Cheers,
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