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White House Obfuscates Email
markgo2k writes "Do you want to email the president? This John Markoff, New York Times story (reprinted here in the non-subscription Seattle PI) details how the White House no longer promises to read anything you send to president@whitehouse.gov. Instead, you must navigate a multi-page website AND confirm your submission via email. Oh, and they only want to talk about subjects that are of interest to them." The web-form system appears to be a bit overloaded at the moment.
They don't promise to answer each and every letter, either. And the President certainly must get even more spam than we do, as widespread as that address is. What makes Slashdot or it's readers so special? God at the whining here.
"He doesn't promise to answer our emails! But we're Slashdot readers! We're Important, damnit!"
We're not any more important than anyone else.
And as far as the bitching about the "pro" and "complaint" mails, that's just to make it easier to sort them. Again, so what? I'm already reading comments on here about the complaints going directly to Ashcroft so *gasp!* all Slashdot readers will be shipped off to Cuba for daring to criticize the President!
Here's a tissue. Shut the fuck up, and step back into the real world.
It's a poorly designed process for mail, but it's not an X-Files conspiracy. Sometimes I think when you sign up for a Slashdot account now, you get your first aluminum foil hat free.
Life is hard, and the world is cruel
Slight correction: the quote you allude to is: "you are either with us or with the terrorists".
Let's be clear. If you're not with Bush, you are a terrorist. There is no third way. His words, not mine.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
I do not think this president can be bothered to read period. He can barelly handle all those children books, plus e-mails don't have fancy pictures in them most of the time, and you can not color them up.... So yeah why should he bothered to read unsolicited e-mail, afterall it is not the people who he is serving anyways.