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Faced with a wet Sunday, a losing football team and a Monday committed to other things, and spurred on by a flurry of postings urging me to stop procrastinating (I think that's what "get on with it" means), I sent my Open Letter out yesterday instead of Monday. (I know - I know -I made a big deal out of waiting 'till Monday. What can I say?). Using the addresses supplied by members ( 8 people responded) and the enormous resources found at <http://www.berkshire.net/%7Eifas/activist/> a URL kindly brought to my attention by Margaret Tuchman I sent the OL to 242 newspapers in the US. Unfortunately my campaign appears to have coincided with a major problem at AOL because I received a "failed to deliver" message from every posting to a paper with an AOL address (some 70 or 80 letters). I shall try them again at some future date. The chances of my "one off" letter finding space in any of those papers is remote. But the thought occurs to me that a concerted effort, targeting specific publications would stand a better chance of success. If 5% of this list (+/_ 70 people) all posted a letter on the need to fund the Udall Act, to the same papers at the same time the chance that some of them will be printed has to be improved. Dennis. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dennis Greene 48/11 [log in to unmask] http://members.networx.net.au/~dennisg/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++