hi adam,
adam beecher wrote:
No, aside from the fact that these things would probably look better coming from an "association" or somesuch,
i dunno ... i thought this when i was sending it ... but then i thought it makes more sense hitting them with the same information over and over again from lots of sources ... a kinda DDOS
particularly in a case like this where
the MEP's are being hammered from the other side by associations, corporations and professional lobbyists. There's no doubt that the personal approach does work in some circumstances, but I think personal lobbying is best used to /enhance/ an organised campaign.
what we are doing now is an organised campaign - for me, it's organised via this email list and i think this is an appropriate method
Greenpeace and the EFF are perfect examples, and when you get right down to it we're just talking about a few forms and a web-fax gateway, something a bunch of techies like us should be able to procure and produce in a couple of hours.
... Tab-delimited spreadsheet of Irish MEP fax numbers attached
i take your point about the need to use the technology available to us ... i'll get together a list of the uk meps, emails for the next round
-- adam