My plan to dramatically increase the effect of our email activism

[Ian David]

Senator Cosgrave went ballistic and said that the people on the internets were "abusing" him over his idea to criminalize the failure to report a miscarriage.

According to this article:
http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=80370&ran=43780

Cosgrave says he received 500 emails.

This raises two questions for me:

1) The best we can do is 500 emails?

2) It only takes 500 emails for Cosgrave to declare himself "abused"?

I know people who get 200 spam emails every day and they just shrug it off.

Cosgrave gets 500 emails and he curls up into a ball and hides?

If that's all it takes, we need a better system of sending at least 500 emails to people on the issues that matter.

I have an idea.

If anyone is really good with things like PERL and other computer-related acronyms, please send me a private message.

I am grinning ear to ear with what I think is a truly brilliant plan.

:evilgrin:

[Maat]

1. I, for one, think you made some very good points ...

I say that without explicitly endorsing whatever you are up to (just laughing - it's like my husband, the Internet Software Guru, he's always up to something - he wants to stay away from spamming, though - has big legal implications right now).

[Ian David]

2. I do believe what I have in mind is both ethical and legal

Then again, I am not a lawyer, nor do I play one on TV.

I also believe it is technically feasible.

Oh, and it's also not spamming.

Spamming is "un-ethical."

[Maat]

3. O.K. Got you.

I'm just learning about it all. I'm glad to know you are going to stay out of trouble - just like this wife kicks her husband in the behind to do.

4. What's the plan or is it a secret? nt

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