[free-sklyarov] The Web site and 'writing your congressman' (fwd)

[alfee cube]

much information about how your representative
understands (or at least what they are told) can be
gleaned from:

"section by section analysis of H.R. 2281 as passed by
the house of representatives on aug. 4, 1998"

i have not yet been able to get this in digital
format. i have a copy but it is to poor to scan.

if someone finds a digital copy the list could benefit
by learning what the legislators have been told.


--- Seth Finkelstein <sethf at sethf.com> wrote:
> Daniel Orr wrote:
> > 
> > I am a former aide a U.S. Senator.
> > ...
> > Persuading Congress to amend the DMCA is a matter
> of educating them. Most
> > members have little idea as to the law's impact.
> Letters from constituents
> > are a good way to get them to sit up and take
> notice.
> 
> 	Thanks Daniel. I'm a constituent of Senator
> Kennedy, and he's
> on the Judiciary committee. I've been thinking I
> could write a long
> letter to him, pulling out all my credentials, and
> making a liberal
> oriented argument against the DMCA. Question for
> you: Does any of
> that matter? That is, does a pages-long letter count
> even
> marginally more than a short one? Is the key aspect
> the letter
> itself, and sounding halfway-not-insane (:-)),
> rather than cites
> and credentials? Or does it really matter if I puff
> myself
> (or would that be negative, since I'm not an
> ordinary citizen then?)
> Thanks for some insight here.
> 
> -- 
> Seth Finkelstein  Consulting Programmer 
> sethf at sethf.com  http://sethf.com
>
http://www10.nytimes.com/2001/07/19/technology/circuits/19HACK.html
> 
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