[nopardons]

Waste of time and money. I used to send Shays and LIEberman, and Dodd E-mail, and just got back stupid form letters.

[autoresponder]

If I ever call Shays office I make sure to instruct them to never send me their staff written, Shays signed stock form letters.

[johnb838]

When I send emails I do it for two reasons:

1) I get to vent, though you gotta be careful... don't want the guys in the black suits showing up at the door. This actually happened to a roommate I had back in '83.

2) Because it serves as a defacto "vote". They do total them up and they do pay attention. I believe I read that they consider each person that expresses an opinion to represent 5000 that have the same opinion but don't express it. So it's important. I sometimes wonder if they weight an email equally with a letter or a phone call, though, because it's so much easier. And doesn't cost anything. Yet.