jps@stcvax.UUCP (Jeff Snover) (11/27/84)
Is the white house (1600 Penn. ave.) on the net? If it is not
(as I suspect) how can we get it on? It seems to me that they
would be interested in getting feedback from as many people as
possible and the net would be a perfect medium. (keep any flames
about "the white house doesn't care" to yourself or else feel free
to post them to /dev/null or anywhere else where I don't have to
see them!!).
I know that if I want to write to the white house I should pick
up pen in hand and go for it via the US SNAIL but when it gets right
down to it I usually won't because I fluked penmanship and I don't
have a typewriter and to get to the point: its a pain in the ass! The net
is easy and fun to use and if I had a path to the white house I would
mail them feedback on things pro and con on a fairly frequent basis
and I think alot of other folks would do so also.
What do you think guys? (colloquialism - implies women, wombats, wackballs)
--
Jeffrey P. Snover - STC StorageTek (Disk Division)
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{ allegra, amd70, ucbvax }!nbires!stcvax!jps
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DDD: (303) 673-6750carl@hpcnoe.UUCP (carl) (12/09/84)
Personally, the white house is too close to the CIA/NSA for my tastes. I'm not sure what THOSE guys would think of all this freedom-of-expression- gone-berserk. Carl Dierschow / Hewlett Packard
mayo@ucbvax.ARPA (Bob Mayo) (12/11/84)
Not on the net? Consider this entry from the ArpaNet directory:
White House (OPD)
Office of Policy Development
Old Executive Office Building
17th and Pennsylvania, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20500
It is interesting to note that although they are listed in the
directory you can't send mail to them since they are not in the
host tables (at least around here).
--Bobpaul@hp-lsd.UUCP (paul) (12/11/84)
I'm sure NSA monitors the net. If you want to get a message into the machine,
add in a bunch of "hot" words (ie.. El Salvador) and phrases and the NSA
should pull your message for further attention. :-)
--Paul Bame
UUCP: {hplabs,ihnp4!hpfcla}!hp-lsd!paul
CSNET: hp-lsd!paul@hp-labs.csnet
ARPA: hp-lsd!paul&hp-labs@csnet-relay.arpaandrea@hp-sdd.UUCP (andrea) (12/11/84)
I would like an intermediate "buffer" to keep some distance between
systems, such as a site which produced hardcopy and mailed it
to the president/staff, sorted by issue.
In fact, why stop there? All public representatives (state, federal)
and offices should be accessible to constituents by email. It would
certainly increase our participation in the government.
Of course, you'd need someone to volunteer to maintain the liason
(not me :-). If Apple can donate computers to ghetto kids and
Fortune can help satellite news get off the ground, perhaps a
un*x-vested company would like to pick up on this "public service"
as a good pr gesture.
Andrea Frankel, Hewlett-Packard (San Diego Division) (619) 487-4100 x4664
net: {allegra|ihnp4|decvax|ucbvax}!hplabs!hp-sdd!andrea
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