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:: 7.18.2003 ::

:: e-Mailing Dubya ::

White House e-mail system becomes less user-friendly
By John Markoff
The New York Times

Do you want to send an e-mail message to the White House?

Good luck.

In the past, to tell President Bush--or at least those assigned to read his mail--what was on your mind it was necessary only to sit down at a personal computer connected to the Internet and dash off a note to president@whitehouse.gov.

But this week, Tom Matzzie, an online organizer with the AFL-CIO, discovered that communicating with the White House had become a bit more daunting. When Matzzie sent an e-mail protest against a Bush administration policy, the message was bounced back with an automated reply, saying he had to send it again in a new way.

Under a system deployed on the White House Web site for the first time last week, those who want to send a message to President Bush must now navigate as many as nine Web pages and fill out a detailed form that starts by asking whether the message sender supports White House policy or differs with it.

The White House says the new e-mail system, at www.whitehouse.gov/webmail, is an effort to be more responsive to the public ...

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by sweeney37 (325921)

> He said he particularly disliked being forced to specify whether he was offering a "supporting comment" or a "differing opinion" to Bush.

So when those emails come in, I guess they go in either one of two mailboxes. "With us" or "Against Us".

The "Against Us" email automatically get forwarded to Ashcroft.

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