Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 21:52:13 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <199910300152.VAA10248@mattababy.mit.edu>
From: belmonte@mit.edu (Matthew Belmonte)
To: CapuanoHR8@aol.com
Subject: Re: oppose Internet filtering provisions in HR 3037

Thanks for your mail.  As I wrote to you on Sunday 8 August 1999 at 16:28:21
EDT, I will be happy to contact Mr Capuano's office at a different address, as
soon as such an address exists.  The current system, based on HTML forms, makes
communication cumbersome and time-consuming.  Other members of Congress accept
constituent communications via email instead of requiring use of the web-based
interface, so it seems there's no obstacle to Mr Capuano's doing so also.

The problem that you mentioned in restricting communications to those from Mr
Capuano's district is not unique to an email interface.  The same problem
exists with a web-based interface.  Your solution to this problem is to make
it more difficult for *everyone*, including constituents, to send mail to Mr
Capuano's office.  A better solution would be to adopt a system of constituent
authentication, such as exchange of PGP public keys.

Until Mr Capuano's office begins to accept email, I will continue to use this
address for correspondence.  You've already told me that you'll delete all of
it without reading it, but at least each time my mail arrives you'll be
reminded that constituents deserve an open line of communication.