E-mailing U.S. Congress Members May Not Be Effective

	posted by Scott on Tuesday March 20, @12:33PM from the news dept.
	According to this ZDNet story (found on Slashdot), " Members of Congress are inundated with so many e-mail messages from constituents and special interest groups--80 million last year alone--that lawmakers routinely ignore most of them, according to a new study." A disturbing part of the report claims that citizen's expectations should be lowered, and that people have no right to expect a response to electronic communications with Congressmen and women.

	Source: ZDNet [Tech news network] Title: Tech crisis--D.C. drowning in e-mail Author: Unknown [Reuters news story] Date: March 18, 2001

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e-mailing congress (Score:1) by Trudy W Schuett on Tuesday March 20, @06:11PM EST (#1) (User #116 Info) E-mail is the bottom-of-the-barrel, least effective way to contact either legislators or media. Always choose the snail-mail option when there is a choice. Follow up your hard-copy letter to the *local* office of your legislator with a phone call. Ask if they received your letter, and go from there. The aide answering the phone has no way of knowing whether your letter got there or not, but will be more receptive to your message because you sent a hard-copy letter. Happy trails! Good lobbying! Trudy

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