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On 12/19/2011 3:01 PM, Matthew Gillen wrote: > On 12/19/2011 02:50 PM, Rich Braun wrote: >> Ackkk, the politicians are turning their attention to the Internet >> again. >> First came the America Invents Act of 2011. Now comes SOPA, the Stop >> Online >> Piracy Act, which gives the same corporate clowns control over who >> gets to say >> what online. Appropriate for bureaucrats in China or North Korea, >> perhaps, >> but here I say hands off my Internet. >> >> Read more at: >> >> http://motherboard.vice.com/2011/12/16/dear-congress-it-s-no-longer-ok-to-not-know-how-the-internet-works >> >> Congressman Capuano already has a letter from me in his in-box. >> Write yours... > > I wrote Sen. Brown about this and got an acknowledgment letter back > within a couple hours. Nothing stating an opinion on the legislation, > but enough of a reply to make me believe that someone in his office at > least read my letter. > > I never got a response when I wrote Sen. Kerry about a different issue. Since my grandfather was a in the Massachusetts House, I'll share something he taught me: if you /really/ want to get their attention, take my advice. Sit down and use a pen to write a letter by hand. Do /not/ use a printer or word processor: write it *BY* *HAND*, in cursive, and then send it off to Washington. People are funny: writing a letter with a paper and pen is hard work - and your elected representatives /know/ that. They know that someone willing to go through that much trouble is /really/ hot under the collar, and hand-written letters are the only ones that get prompt, individual attention. Email is analyized and weighted for keywords, after being run through /very/ expertly devised filters which identify "mail bomb" auto-writing campaigns and chain letters. Printed mail is often simply weighed, after being sorted by zip code. Only hand-written letters get seen by a real person. FWIW. HTH. Bill -- Bill Horne 339-364-8487
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