DM> however, would be unobtrusive. A web page that mails a form letter to DM> _your_ congressperson's form-letter-readers (ie staff readers) would be DM> much better, IMHO.

Expecially if the form letter generated would be randomly selected from parallel word streams. For example:

I am <concerned|alarmed|frightened> by the <attacks on privacy rights in|glaring First Amendment violations in|fascist mentality of|ominous provisions of|potential for civil rights infringement by> SB <#BILLNO> <introduced recently| proposed|offered> by Senator <#ORIGINATOR>.....

This sort of thing bugs me a lot. If your level of passion on an issue is not enough to send an individually composed letter, then send a form letter. But don't try to fake out people that your note is actually individually composed. One of my pet peeves is junk mail tricked up to look like something else. I expect legislators feel the same way, and have a lot of practice recognizing it. Personally, if I feel strongly about an issue, I call up the legislators office and give his/her aide a piece of my mind. I try to be polite, informative, and find an angle of interest to that particular legislator, no matter how much I may actually despise the slimeball (this was tough when talking to Exon's press secretary). Peter Trei trei@acm.org Peter Trei Senior Software Engineer Purveyor Development Team Process Software Corporation trei@process.com