| 1. | I think this is important. |
| 2. | I've been getting mail about campaigns to resist the censorship of the net by sending large volumes of email to public officials. |
| 3. | I encourage people to *not* forward this email around the net. |
| 4. | Assume that public officials don't understand how email works. |
| 5. | You're preaching to the uninitiated. Meet them where they live, go to the trouble to print out and mail a real letter. Make it look good. Make it respectful. It'll blow their minds. |
| 6. | Overload their inboxes with tons of email and they'll retreat to the safety of their belief that the net is a bad place. |
| 7. | First they hear that we're pornographers. Now we'll be seen as vandals. |
| 8. | Email is too easy. |
| 9. | If you have a printer, use it. |
| 10. | Dave |