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From: jackh@zehntel.UUCP (jack hagerty)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: 55mph and writing your Congressman
Message-ID: <1856@zehntel.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 23-May-85 21:10:42 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 23 21:10:42 1985
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> >    If you have ever voted because you thought it made a difference,
> > do something with 100 times the effect; write your congressman
> > and senators  c/o   U. S. House of Representatives  or U. S. Senate,
> > Washington, D. C.
> > 
> >                                          Paul Bradley
> > 
> 
> This is the most positive and usefull anecdote I've ever seen on net.auto
> and let me contribute to this idea: Since most of us hackers would much
> rather bang keys than put stamps on envelopes, maybe we could write letters 
> and send them to some location where they could be sent as a group!

Better yet, those sites out there with E-COM can send letters directly from
your terminal. It's the exact same amount of effort as posting to USENET
and, as Paul points out, it does a lot of good instead of just letting off
steam.
-- 
                    Jack Hagerty, Zehntel Automation Systems
                          ...!ihnp4!zehntel!jackh