Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 Fluke 8/7/84; site fluke.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!hoxna!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!microsoft!fluke!moriarty From: moriarty@fluke.UUCP (Jeff Meyer) Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: Lets get 1600 Penn. Ave on the net. Message-ID: <82@vax2.fluke.UUCP> Date: Sun, 2-Dec-84 20:35:41 EST Article-I.D.: vax2.82 Posted: Sun Dec 2 20:35:41 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 4-Dec-84 19:31:47 EST References: <330@stcvax.UUCP> Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Everett, WA Lines: 25 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. UUCP: {cornell,decvax,ihnp4,sdcsvax,tektronix,utcsrgv}!uw-beaver \ {allegra,gatech!sb1,hplabs!lbl-csam,decwrl!sun,ssc-vax} -- !fluke!moriarty ARPA: fluke!moriarty@uw-beaver.ARPA