[787] in Cypherpunks
Re: WH email petition.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J. Michael Diehl)
Wed Jun 2 20:20:38 1993
From: J. Michael Diehl <mdiehl@triton.unm.edu>
To: dmandl@lehman.com (David Mandl)
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1993 18:06:10 -0600 (MDT)
Cc: smb@research.att.com, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <9306021344.AA16267@disvnm2.shearson.com> from "David Mandl" at Jun 2, 93 09:44:06 am
According to David Mandl:
> In general, I agree that petitions are a major waste of time and energy;
> I'm also pretty convinced that this White House email link is a big scam.
> Why are they any more likely to take your mail seriously just because it
> comes over the phone lines and not in an envelope? Seems like a pretty
I don't, but as you mention below, it takes so little time, I thought we could
get people involved who may not otherwise give a damn. "It's so easy, just
send a quick letter, it will really help us out." Or something like that.
> transparent PR ploy (also an attempt to make it seem like the White House
> isn't a bunch of dinosaurs now that everybody and her nephew has an email
> address).
Well, we all know that! ;^)
> But since it won't take much more than a couple of minutes of any of our
> time, I can't see an electronic petition hurting our cause any--especially
> because it'll certainly include the names of many esteemed professionals
> and braniacs with fancy scientific, corporate, and academic credentials.
> I think this could be a nice propaganda coup if it got publicised.
How about each time we manage to get someone to send a letter to the WH, we also
request that they send it to one of us, so that we can keep track of it? Is
this doable accross the many networks?
> It could at the very least give a big black eye to the forces of evil.
'Hope so.
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