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Article: Mr. President, have you got e-mail? White House makes it harder to send messages electronically
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- International Herald Tribune
- Article date:
- July 19, 2003
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Do you want to send an e-mail message to the White House? Good luck.
In the past, to tell President George W. Bush ã or at least those
assigned to read his mail ã what was on your mind, it was only necessary
to sit down at a computer connected to the Internet and dash off an
e-mail note to president@whitehouse.gov. But this week, Tom Matzzie,
an online organizer with the AFL-CIO, discovered that communicating
with the White House has become a bit more daunting. When he sent
an e-mail protest against a Bush administration policy, the message
was bounced back with an automated reply, saying that he had to send
it again in a new way. Under a system that was ...