James Fischer wrote:

> Your money may be much better spent sending your own
> letters to your own congresscritters with your own stamps,

Do you have an indication that actual US Postal letters are more  
effective than contacting congresscritters electronically?  It's very  
easy these days to locate your senator/representative using http:// 
www.senate.gov/ and http://www.house.gov/ and to send them your  
opinion electronically.  These sites also contain mailing addresses,  
telephone numbers, and FAX numbers.  If I thought that traditional  
mail was more effective, I'd use it . . . but I'd like to think that  
it doesn't matter which actual delivery mechanism I use.

The cynic in me says that it won't matter . . . but the realist says  
that the only way to be sure not to have any effect is to do  
nothing.  I'd just like to maximize the return on  my time, and if  
that means licking stamps, so be it.

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