US congressmen hide behind their email

The post to Declan McCullagh, who runs the site, suggests that instead citizens have to find the politicians' websites, and fill out forms to "email" their requests or complaints.

According to the complainant, 391 out 530 representatives with email have hit on the cunning plan which allows them to pick and choose which to ignore and which to answer.

The whistle blower called the Washington office of Senator Boxer, which confirmed that her email had been "turned off".

But the likelihood is, suggests Thomas Leavitt, that all of these politicians do have email systems, but just don't want the bother of listening to the populace.

They'll also avoid the rash of messages we're getting from people who claim to have come into vast sums of money and want us to help them liberate it from Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Congo and now dozens of other countries.

But on the other hand, we read all of our email here, and no-one's elected us to be the representative of the people. µ

L'INQ. µ