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From: moriarty@fluke.UUCP (Jeff Meyer)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Lets get 1600 Penn. Ave on the net.
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Date: Sun, 2-Dec-84 20:35:41 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec  2 20:35:41 1984
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My guess is that the people at the White house read mail to get a general
opinion of the public's reaction to the administration's policies.  Two
reasons that they would probably not care to weed through the net: 1) we are
probably not more representitive of the general public than the mail they
get (I believe the net poll showed 60% for Mondale), and 2) letters they get
by US Mail show that people had the gumption to spend $0.20 and the time to
write it to show their opinion... people who do this are probably more
likely to feel strongly enough to vote or put money into a PAL (political
action lobby) for their opinions, than a person like me who spouts opinion
every day, free of charge (to me personally), instead of taking the trouble
to print it out and mail it in (and it does take time, because I do it for
issues I consider important).

Anyway, even though the White House isn't reading it, the NSA (CIA?
S.H.I.E.L.D.?) is probably poring through it :-).

	"Dammit, man, that's unprofessional!  A good bartender laughs anyway!"

					Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer
					John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc.
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