Alan
On Wed, 13 Dec 1995, fran sendbuehler wrote:
> Speaking of "Re: The Internet Day of Protest so far", Alan Sondheim hath
> scrawled:
>
> |> With 5.8 million US citizens on the Net, I would have expected more...
> |> I'm actually disappointed. Congress will ignore this; it's a drop in the
> |> bucket...
> |>
>
> |> On Tue, 12 Dec 1995, Christina Siun O'Connell wrote:
> |>
> |> > the tally of reports of calls and faxes as of 7:30 pm est to the vtw
> |> > address was 14,000 (which equates to approx. 50,000 actual messages sent)
>
> I sent off my little notes by about 11 am; I tried to send the same to the
> protest@vtw whatever address; it bounced not once but several times. If
> that's any indication of others' sending anything there, then the figure of
> 14,000 is not indicative of anything.
>
> in any case, my little effort hit the nine email
> senators/congresspeople/whatever their names are.
>
> Drowing in Melville and Milton; hoping for freedom in one week. (some
> birthday, eh?)
>
> best to all...
>
> fran, resubmerging.
>
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