WH email petition.

In light of the White House getting on the net, how effective do you all think
an electronic petition, about the BigBrotherChip, would be?  Do you think that
they would listen?  Do you think that, perhapse, we would simply be put on a 
list of "trouble makers?"  I was thinking of writting a petition and 
distributing it in every way I can think of, and encouraging people to send it
to the White House.  Any comments?  
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>In light of the White House getting on the net, how effective do you all think
>an electronic petition, about the BigBrotherChip, would be?

It appears that they are going to count responses and make totals pro
and con any particular issue that people write about.  Thus while the
particulars of the petition don't really matter, the basic statements
against restrictions on encryption technology do.

I also heard no mention that they were going to do any kind of sorting
by person or email address.  Thus it appears that you get to vote
early and often in this public opinion poll.

Heh, heh, heh.

Eric

> It appears that they are going to count responses and make totals pro
> and con any particular issue that people write about.  Thus while the
> particulars of the petition don't really matter, the basic statements
> against restrictions on encryption technology do.
> 
> I also heard no mention that they were going to do any kind of sorting
> by person or email address.  Thus it appears that you get to vote
> early and often in this public opinion poll.

Do you think they'd TELL you that they were putting people on lists?  Not 
OUR government....
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On Tue, 1 Jun 1993, J. Michael Diehl wrote:

> In light of the White House getting on the net, how effective do you all think
> an electronic petition, about the BigBrotherChip, would be?  Do you think that
> they would listen?  Do you think that, perhapse, we would simply be put on a 
> list of "trouble makers?"  I was thinking of writting a petition and 
> distributing it in every way I can think of, and encouraging people to send it
> to the White House.  Any comments?  


A good idea, but it appears from the announcement that they are just going
to create a database of return addresses and subject lines and sit around
and read that instead of reading the actual messages.

In that case I would suggest a well written form letter that we could
encourage people to forward to the address with their names on it.  That
way after they see the same subject line 12,000 times they might get the
slight urge to read the message going along with it.  That would be kind
of equivalent to a petition.

Somebody good at slicking politicos like to draft a nice letter?


-Ryan
the Bit Wallah

> A good idea, but it appears from the announcement that they are just going
> to create a database of return addresses and subject lines and sit around
> and read that instead of reading the actual messages.
> 
> In that case I would suggest a well written form letter that we could
> encourage people to forward to the address with their names on it.  That
> way after they see the same subject line 12,000 times they might get the
> slight urge to read the message going along with it.  That would be kind
> of equivalent to a petition.

YES!  I may have been unclear in my presentation, but this is what I had in 
mind!  Comments?

> Somebody good at slicking politicos like to draft a nice letter?

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+-----If codes are outlawed, only criminals wil have codes.-----+
+----Is Big Brother in your phone?  If you don't know, ask me---+