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Well here’s something I bet you didn’t know.
The White House doesn’t have an email address. We’re trying to mobilize something for the Main Street Brigade, letting users send Obama an electronic post card on an issue. And I’ve run into a glitch in executing it.
It seems the White House doesn’t want email.
Now this is an American tradition. If we don’t like something, it used to be we’d flood them with letters. Just to remind them of who they work for. Then phone calls. Then it was faxes.
So now shouldn’t it logically be email?
Turns out, if you want to email the White House, you have to go to their web site and fill out a polite little form, with a text box that gives you about six lines to say what you want.
Your Senators and Congressmen have the same set up by the way. Though sometimes if you call their offices you can get someone willing to give you and email address.
I’m going to call the White House tomorrow and ask them about it. Maybe they’ll say it’s because of spammers. I think it’s because it’s so easy to send email, a whole lot of people would do it, and they don’t want to handle the traffic.
I’ll keep you posted.