And verily didst Sylvia Caras spake of these matters:
>
> I'm involved in a lot of NII lobbying, free nets, etc. and
> often get messages about writing to electeds WHO DON'T
> HAVE E MAIL <sigh>.
>
> Is there a way to use majordomo or some program to be an
> address to tally pros and cons, save the names and addresses,
> and then generate a wrap up message which would be snailed
> to the right place?
As Brent and John mentioned, setting up mailing lists of the
form "issue-yes" and "issue-no" should be fairly straightforward.
If you don't make them "auto", then people aren't likely to
be able to stuff them easily (forging notwithstanding). The
nice thing about Majordomo/similar is automatic detection/rejection
of duplicates.
When the petition period is done, you could fax the results to
the target official instead of snail-mail. Check out the
mail-to-fax service by sending a message to tpc-faq@town.hall.org
(subject and body not important). The process could be automated fairly
easily.
- Alan
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