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Old July 11th 19, 07:01 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Keith Nuttle
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I routinely send email to members of Congress when I find things of
interest. Recently there is an alarming trend.

If the member is a Democrat or has a controversial opinion, they have
made it impossible to contact them, as they have remove their email
information from their web Site.

While I can understand (Possibly) a member of Congress who holds no
committee position, or a position in the House or Senate to not allowing
anyone to contact them; it is becomes a highly questionable practice
when they do hold public positions.

It is almost as if they are hiding from the general public and do not
want to hear any opinions other that their constituents who probably
hold the same opinion as their



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Old July 11th 19, 07:16 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
T
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On 7/11/19 11:01 AM, Keith Nuttle wrote:
I routinely send email to members of Congress when I find things of
interest.Â* Recently there is an alarming trend.

If the member is a Democrat or has a controversial opinion, they have
made it impossible to contact them, as they have remove their email
information from their web Site.

While I can understand (Possibly) a member of Congress who holds no
committee position, or a position in the House or Senate to not allowing
anyone to contact them;Â* it is becomes a highly questionable practice
when they do hold public positions.

It is almost as if they are hiding from the general public and do not
want to hear any opinions other that their constituents who probably
hold the same opinion as their




A better place to post this is

alt.politics.scorched-earth

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Old July 11th 19, 08:14 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Paul[_32_]
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T wrote:
On 7/11/19 11:01 AM, Keith Nuttle wrote:
I routinely send email to members of Congress when I find things of
interest. Recently there is an alarming trend.

If the member is a Democrat or has a controversial opinion, they have
made it impossible to contact them, as they have remove their email
information from their web Site.

While I can understand (Possibly) a member of Congress who holds no
committee position, or a position in the House or Senate to not
allowing anyone to contact them; it is becomes a highly questionable
practice when they do hold public positions.

It is almost as if they are hiding from the general public and do not
want to hear any opinions other that their constituents who probably
hold the same opinion as their


A better place to post this is

alt.politics.scorched-earth


That's where you contact them.

If you need a hillbilly for some yard work, that's
where they hang out.

*******

Snail mail also works.

An email address on the other hand, would be DDOSed out of existence.
Cloudflare plus a large bucket for spillage.

It would be like the Asus support email address, where
the response you would get is "mailbox is full". And
you could never tell whether anyone cared or not.

Who would want to advertise such a useless choice ?

The beauty of snail mail, is the possibility it costs
money to use the service. This has also been proposed
to stop email spam - if each message cost you $0.10,
that rapidly puts a stop to "endless bombardment".

Paul
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Old July 11th 19, 08:30 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
T
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On 7/11/19 12:14 PM, Paul wrote:
T wrote:
On 7/11/19 11:01 AM, Keith Nuttle wrote:
I routinely send email to members of Congress when I find things of
interest.Â* Recently there is an alarming trend.

If the member is a Democrat or has a controversial opinion, they have
made it impossible to contact them, as they have remove their email
information from their web Site.

While I can understand (Possibly) a member of Congress who holds no
committee position, or a position in the House or Senate to not
allowing anyone to contact them;Â* it is becomes a highly questionable
practice when they do hold public positions.

It is almost as if they are hiding from the general public and do not
want to hear any opinions other that their constituents who probably
hold the same opinion as their


A better place to post this is

Â*Â*Â*Â* alt.politics.scorched-earth


That's where you contact them.

If you need a hillbilly for some yard work, that's
where they hang out.

*******

Snail mail also works.

An email address on the other hand, would be DDOSed out of existence.
Cloudflare plus a large bucket for spillage.

It would be like the Asus support email address, where
the response you would get is "mailbox is full". And
you could never tell whether anyone cared or not.

Who would want to advertise such a useless choice ?

The beauty of snail mail, is the possibility it costs
money to use the service. This has also been proposed
to stop email spam - if each message cost you $0.10,
that rapidly puts a stop to "endless bombardment".

Â*Â* Paul


I have been guilty of feeding the trolls myself. But
I am trying to reform.

"endless bombardment". Ya, they will just do as the phone
cold callers do and move overseas.

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Old July 11th 19, 09:56 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Percival P. Cassidy
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On 7/11/19 2:01 PM, Keith Nuttle wrote:

I routinely send email to members of Congress when I find things of
interest.Â* Recently there is an alarming trend.

If the member is a Democrat or has a controversial opinion, they have
made it impossible to contact them, as they have remove their email
information from their web Site.

While I can understand (Possibly) a member of Congress who holds no
committee position, or a position in the House or Senate to not allowing
anyone to contact them;Â* it is becomes a highly questionable practice
when they do hold public positions.

It is almost as if they are hiding from the general public and do not
want to hear any opinions other that their constituents who probably
hold the same opinion as their


Irrelevant to Windows 10 though this be, I had occasion recently to
contact our local Republican representative and found not an email
address but a form to fill out. I received an intelligent response
addressing the issue I had raised -- i.e., not just a generic "Thank you
for contacting me" response.

Perce


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Old July 11th 19, 10:20 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
T
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Default OT Congress Contact

On 7/11/19 1:56 PM, Percival P. Cassidy wrote:
found not an email address but a form to fill ou


This is on purpose. It removes the "mailto:" tag and
defeats robots looking for eMail addresses to spam
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Old July 12th 19, 12:03 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Mayayana
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"Keith Nuttle" wrote

| If the member is a Democrat or has a controversial opinion, they have
| made it impossible to contact them, as they have remove their email
| information from their web Site.
|

I've noticed that, too. I wanted to write to Al Franken,
to encourage him. I felt like we lost perhaps the most
intelligent and fairminded senator to MeToo fever and
Kirsten Gillibrand's presidential ambitions. It turned out
Franken also started a PAC to help politicians he thinks
are good. Yet in all that, no email address. Just a form.
So I gave up.

I find that insulting. It's not necessary to stop spam.
People can use an image of the email address or a
javascript formula to stop bots. And bots *do* fill out
forms.


 




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