on 5/28/2003 8:30 PM Richard Shockey wrote: > Its not that hard to write a letter, sign it with a return address and > put a postage stamp on it or make a phone call to a local > representatives office.. > > The US Congress is not very good a dealing with email ..trust me. > > they like snail mail... As a follow-up to anyone considering it, one office has said that the anthrax scare has made snail-mail processing even more snail-like on the hill. Sending postal mail to the home-state office is supposedly much faster. If it has an in-state return address then it is that much more likely to get read. Also, at least some of the senators supposedly get several thousand emails each week. Interestingly, about half the senators and reps no longer publish email addresses, and many of them bounce email with a message saying to resubmit via a web form. Whether this is due to the volume of political spamming or UCE spamming is left to the reader to ponder. All of that aside, the one response I've received which doesn't appear to be completely automated (or at least somebody had to manually choose the correct automated response) was to email. -- Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/