G. T. Francisco, III grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > 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. :)
See http://www.eff.org/congress.html#priority for information regarding this. The EFF makes it a *point* of knowing this stuff, since they have to deal with it on a regular basis. :-) > 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. Yup. Again, see the above URL. --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server for PGP Public key
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