Re: Free The World Web Server project.. :)
PE> > PE> would be discerned by a staffer in moments. Crap like this is called PE> > PE> > They should know, because they send form letters to constituents all PE> > the time, only they don't bother to vary it a bit. PE> PE> Misdirection. This has nothing to do with my point. The staffers will PE> STILL toss your stuff. After putting the appropriate tally mark on the sheet for the day's mail, and sending out the response letter, yep. I don't expect Jan Meyers to personally =ever= see my mail to her office. I only expect her gruntlings to put that mark under "no" for the ______ Bill. PE> > Meanwhile, back at the ranch. PE> PE> In other words, you are choosing to ignore me. Regardless of whether Not at all. I concede that letters do not get read by Anyone Important. I only want them to =count= the darned things, and the variations in verbiage, margins, fonts, etc. should be enough to get them classified as part of an organized letter-writing campaign, instead of a form-letter-signing campaign. That puts the mark in a different column. PE> you are paying attentoion, however, you will still not be able to Not only am I paying attentoion [sic], but I know from experience that the staffers at least have to pay enough themselves to know which form letter to send me in response to my Heartfelt Expressions of Concern. Without fail, I get that letter from Meyers' office, but only about half the time from Dole or Kassebaum. PE> > .. If one of our DC members can set up an PE> > Imail-FAX gateway, we can publicize some nifty Iddresses for folx to PE> PE> Perhaps people who can be bothered to spell out "folks" properly also When I am writing to people whose opinion of my spelling I give a snit about, I will spell it precisely as you indicate. If it annoys you, set up your copy of exxxon to do the transform, or put my name in your twit filter. Talk about misdirection.... But "folx" is exactly the kind of thing that tells the staffer that it is =not= a form letter, because a computer would not be programmed to use variant spellings, would it? PE> are willing to write letters that will be paid attention to. As you PE> seem to prefer to ignore the fact that you will be ignored, why are PE> you willing to spend effort setting up an "Imail[sic]-FAX gateway"? Because that gateway can be used to convert genuinely original, pseudo-original, or blatantly copied Internet mail, ^ ^^^^ May God have mercy on my soul for having coined an =original= abbrv'n. rather than merely rearranging the words and phrases that others frequently use, which would, of course, be Astroturf<tm>. I have never seen the Houston Oilers play football on faxes before.... which has no, or virtually no, marginal cost to most net.people, into actual paper, which, being tangible, has the potential to be counted as Natural Grass, and thus not contribute to knee injuries. * Abuse of power comes as no surprise. --- * Monster@FAmend.Com *
MONTY HARDER writes:
After putting the appropriate tally mark on the sheet for the day's mail, and sending out the response letter, yep. I don't expect Jan Meyers to personally =ever= see my mail to her office. I only expect her gruntlings to put that mark under "no" for the ______ Bill.
You don't grok the "astroturf" concept. They'll note that letters look too similar and discount them.
But "folx" is exactly the kind of thing that tells the staffer that it is =not= a form letter,
You are right -- indicates someone who thinks it makes them a K00L D00D. I shan't say more. .pm
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SANDY SANDFORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C'punks, Geez Louise, what is going on with all this blah, blah about fooling our elected representatives (hah) with electronic form letters? If the proponents of this ill-conceived idea had spent half as much time actually writing to their congress-entities as they put into this silly debate . . . S a n d y ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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