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Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 14:24:54 -0600 (CST)
From: eab@MSC.EDU(Edward Bertsch)
Subject: File 3--Re: Cu Digest, #6.09/Lobby the Feds via PC

>Computer reporter/reviewer David Batterson looks forward to the day
>when most federal, state, county and city officials are online, so we
>can zap 'em with e-mail.  [Will he live so long?]  You may contact him
>via The Internet:  dbatterson@mcimail.com, or:
>david.batterson@f290.n105.z1.fidonet.org.
> * Evaluation copy of Silver Xpress. Day # 50
> --- via Silver Xpress V4.00 [NR]
> --
>uucp: uunet!m2xenix!puddle!290!David.Batterson
>Internet: David.Batterson@f290.n105.z1.fidonet.org


You don't have to wait for them to be on-line.  It is not realistic
to expect politicians to do this in your or my lifetime.

What you can do is get yourself a FAX modem and some print capture
software.  This is what I use.  I put together a document in a
Windoze word processor, then I say print (to the print capture
software).  A box comes up asking me who to send it to.  I have
the LOCAL phone numbers for my Congress- and Senate- critters,
as well as Governor, Mayor, City Council, and state house and senate.

I select an individual or multiple recipients, and the message
is sent to them.  If there is a busy number, it goes on to the
next one on the list, and eventually gets through to all of
them.  My words are read as I wrote them (much different
than what happens when you leave a verbal message) and are
dealt with in a timely manner, since so much of their day to day
business is conducted by FAX these days...

You can get internal data/fax modems for $99 and less these days,
and externals for little more.  (even v.32bis/v.42bis/v.17 14400 data/14400
fax
modems)

The software to capture "printed" output to fax is usually included.

I would assume similar prices and packages exist for the Macintosh.


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