At 3:54 PM 7/13/94, Kent Borg wrote:

"Shabbir J. Safdar" <shabbir@panix.com> wrote:

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I phoned the House Rules comm. this morning. They informed me that the committee voted 5-4 earlier this week to allow amendments to the General Export Administration Act on the House Floor.

Stanton McCandlish <mech@eff.org> then copied it out to a zillion destinations.

Aren't we looking a bit amateurish?

I'd called it "grassroots," myself.

If EFF is going to make official requests for faxes and phone calls it should also make prompt official reports of the results. I want us to be organized, I want us to look organized, I want the Congress to know we are organized.

Did the EFF actually make this call (for the House Rules lobbying)? I thought it was a different organization. Stanton McCandlish has a tendancy to forward anything vaguely EFF'ish to many, many places. He also forwarded that idiocy called "Telco Snooping" a while back. Does that mean the EFF supports/believes that? I hope not, or my membership dollars (and AT&T, and whoever else's) are being wasted. If the EFF did make this call, I agree they need to be reacting a bit quicker. The ability to get information out quickly and fairly cheaply is what the net/InfoBahn/Information Superhighway is all about. Bob -- Bob Snyder N2KGO MIME, RIPEM mail accepted snyderra@dunx1.ocs.drexel.edu finger for RIPEM public key When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.