[Politech] John Gilmore on Feinstein not accepting email [sp]

From: Declan McCullagh (declan@private)
Date: Thu May 13 2004 - 22:04:23 PDT

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    -------- 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@private>
    To: Declan McCullagh <declan@private>
    CC: politech@private
    References: <409874F0.4040003@private>
    
    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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