John Gilmore on Feinstein not accepting email [sp]

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Politech] California's Sen. Feinstein no longer accepts 
email [sp]
Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 17:54:38 -0700
From: John Gilmore <gnu () toad com>
To: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
CC: politech () politechbot com
References: <409874F0.4040003 () well com>

Queen Diane Feinstein isn't blocking email because it contains spam.
She's had this policy for months or years.

She just doesn't want to hear from her constituents.  She inherited a
political machine that guarantees her re-election, so why should she
care what her constituents think?

The online activism email-your-senator services already use programs
that navigate these dinosaur senators' web sites and post each
citizen's message to them anyway.  Someone at, say,
www.politicaloutreach.com, could tell you exactly how it works.

Perhaps some enterprising political outreach service will set up an
email address for each senator who refuses to accept email -- and
forward any mail they get at that address, through the unresponsive
senator's web site.

        John


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