🚀 go-pugleaf

Thanks for posting this, Lar.  However, I suspect that there is more
(or less?) to this than meets the eye.  The following tidbit leads me
to believe that Congress is less than eager to open itself up to
the unwashed cybermasses:

> From: cid@athena.mit.edu (Derek H Cedillo)
> Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
> Subject: PLEASE READ! (was: I spoke with hr.house.com)
> Date: 9 Feb 1993 13:43:26 GMT
> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
> Message-ID: <1l8cduINN8jp@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
> 
> I recently spoke with hr.house.com as you all know.
> I also gave errata for Jems posting.
> Please make the Technical Contact back to being John Schnizlein
> 
> The person with whom I talked is now in jeopardy of losing a job 
> for communicating with outside individuals.  Please do not contact him.  
> Sorry for all the inconvenience

I've tried sending mail to the contacts listed at hr.house.gov and
gotten no reply.

Again, I think that Congress will need some persuading from its
constituents on the net before it opens up to routinely accepting
e-mail on an equal footing with papermail and telephone
communications.  If you think that EFF should play a part in getting
the word to Congress, please send mail to eff@eff.org and say so.
Thanks.

-- Prentiss Riddle ("aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada") riddle@rice.edu
-- Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of my employer.