[803] in Cypherpunks
Re: WH email petition.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (smb@research.att.com)
Thu Jun 3 14:01:23 1993
From: smb@research.att.com
To: "J. Michael Diehl" <mdiehl@triton.unm.edu>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 93 10:19:56 EDT
> they've just gotten smarter about how they do it... Based on my past
> experience, your name will be collected -- but just as a person
> interested in certain issues, so that you can be solicited for funds
> on certain issues.
Does this really happen? WOW!
Does it happen? Sure did circa 20 years ago, when individual members
of Congress had much less computing capacity. I wrote to members of
the House Judiciary committee demanding the impeachment of a certain
unindicted co-conspirator. Over the next few years, I received a
variety of funds solicitation letters, as some of those folks tried
to move on to bigger and better offices. The letters invariably
spoke of the members' ``bravery and courage of conviction'' during
the Watergate investigation, and noted my interest in that subject...
