Handling Email Overload in Congress

DedHerring writes "A piece from Roll Call, a newspaper on the hill, that describes how Congressional offices are working to identify which of the many bulk emails received are actually from constituents of their district. Worth a read to know if the click-through online petition you participate in is ever going to be considered by the recipient legislator. Confirms many posts in Slashdot on this topic."

Comments

they should read the spam

[GoatPigSheep]

I believe all the spam that congress receives should be taken seriously, because we all know penis growth is a very HOT issue in America these days.

That explains a lot

[Devil's BSD]

So, from what I read, this is what I gathered: Gary Condit read too many spam e-mails, and bought some virility pills. He took one accidentally instead of the tylenol he wanted to take, and ended up grabbing the nearest woman nearby, who ended up being Chandra Levy. From there, it went downhill.
One more lesson for the congressmen why we need anti-spam legislation, not just anti-forged-headers and anti-no-unsubscribe legislation.

Re:Why do they need Internet access?

[Scaebor]

Congress ran for over 200+ years without e-mail and it doesn't seem to run better with it. Its not like they have figured why I'm not getting Social Security. Instead of ignoring e-mail, they could focus on fixing that.

You know what? I think you're on to something. But why stop with congress? I really think that all those campus networks should be cut. I mean, read the news, all it does is let those ingrate students cheat easier and download more illegal mp3 files.

You know what? The world was a better place before the internet. Again, look at all that the internet has achieved for terrorists around the world. With the help of the evil technologies of encryption they are going to destroy us all. I think what we really need to do is send a hearty thank you to our congressmen and women to thank them for their efforts to eliminate the threat of the internet to us all through a huge observation campaign.
I'm done now...