Bill, and All...
With all due respect, I hate to throw a cog in your
virtual wheel, but email from a politician posted on
the List will have a very limited exposure. Limited, that
is, when one considers the millions and millions of
people who access the Internet each day.
Email isn't like a live chat. It can't have the impact that
live chat has as it's naturally limited by the number of List
members who are registered to the List. In this case,
1800 or there abouts individuals - and not all of these
people are US voters
Anything that's posted as a statement by a specific
political figure can easily have originated from one of
their aids and credited to the Big Cheese themself.
None of us would even know the difference as to who
actually authored such a message.
Heck... a year ago, it we might have received a post
allegedly written to our List members by the President,
when in reality, he might have fobbed it off on one of
his aids - errrrr such as Monica Lewinsky! (wee smirk)
Why not invite a bunch of politicians - either together or
individually - to join List members in a live CHAT? THAT
way, with advance publicity, our speaker-to-be will
HAVE to be the speaker we invite! (tho I guess we'd
have to take their word for it).
There are free chat rooms on ICQ and several other large
Internet gateway systems - why not take advantage of 'em?
Barb Mallut
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-----Original Message-----
From: William Heitman <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Saturday, September 25, 1999 8:16 PM
Subject: Re: invite them to e-address the list?
> WHAT YOU MUST DO TO BE COUNTED:
> CLICK ON REPLY AND TYPE A SINGLE WORD
>EITHER YES OR NO (And nothing else!)
>
>
> For those who wish me to take these political questions
> elsewhere, the answer is "NO."
>
>
>
>List folk,
>
>This is for those who have not yet sent their comments.
>If you have already sent yours do not send another.
>I hate to be a stick in the mud, but I am beginning
>to hate looking through all the e-mail under this topic
>for something resembling a yes or no. I need your
>help. I have modified the instructions above with caps
>to emphasize the path out of my dilemma.
>
>Suggestion:
>When you want to comment:
>First, place your vote by following the instructions
>above. ("WHAT YOU MUST DO TO BE COUNTED")
> which I have retyped in caps . That makes it easy
> for me to tell what your vote was. Before commenting
>send that vote .
>
> Then, if you wish to say something further:
>1. Return to the original e-mail
>2. click on reply again
>3. Take out the "question #1" part.
>4. The new heading "will then be "Re: invite them to e-address
the list?"
>5. Type what you have to say.
>6. Send that separately from the other one.
>
>Thank you for the help.
>My powers of organization are not what they once were.
>
>
>Best regards,
>WHH
