White House Obfuscates Email 915
markgo2k writes "Do you want to email the president? This John Markoff, New York Times story (reprinted here in the non-subscription Seattle PI) details how the White House no longer promises to read anything you send to president@whitehouse.gov. Instead, you must navigate a multi-page website AND confirm your submission via email. Oh, and they only want to talk about subjects that are of interest to them." The web-form system appears to be a bit overloaded at the moment.
Overloaded (Score:2, Funny)
which movie? (Score:5, Funny)
This website must be "Cabin Boy."
Now... (Score:0, Funny)
one can only hope
Re:I'd rather not have to deal with the DOJ... (Score:5, Funny)
Gueass again where that's going.. (and you along with it).. ever been to Cuba? I heard it's got this lovely bay with lots of friendly people in orange suits. Gua
Yeah (Score:2, Funny)
Gee (Score:0, Funny)
Don't click on the link! (Score:0, Funny)
I'm not surprised. (Score:0, Funny)
other way round (Score:1, Funny)
Thats why you have interns to collate it (Score:1, Funny)
hrm (Score:2, Funny)
Maybe president@whitehouse.gov was just getting too much spam and they decided something needed to be done after GW lost too much money to that poor Nigerian widow.
Code Orange (Score:1, Funny)
Click the link! Change the Color!
Reminds me of the old joke ... (Score:2, Funny)
Q: If Bill Clinton is now president@whitehouse.gov, then where do I send email to Hillary?
A: root@whitehouse.gov.
Re:I'd rather not have to deal with the DOJ... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I'd rather not have to deal with the DOJ... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:I'd rather not have to deal with the DOJ... (Score:5, Funny)
re: deluges of mail (Score:5, Funny)
+1 campaign donor
-1 civil liberties kook
+1 convenient ally
-1 democrat
-1 libertarian
+1 republican
+1 useful tool
ed
Re:This is a good thing (Score:2, Funny)
RECEIVE FREE WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION WITH OFFER!!! Maybe."
Re:Hmm (Score:5, Funny)
How come onlythe president gets a way around spam? (Score:2, Funny)
Better fact check it (Score:4, Funny)
Apparently they've gotten over 1000 e-mails.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:This is a good thing (Score:4, Funny)
I cant think of ANYBODY who uses president@whitehouse.gov for filling out those required forms for adobe, random Foo downloads, etc...
in fact I have NEVER given a good email addres to any of those companies looking for me to fill out to gain access.
Just like I never use to give Radio Shack the 1600 Pennsylvania Addrerss in Washington DC every time I bought something.
The only problem I see... (Score:2, Funny)
"Ok, Mr. President, here's the breakdown today:"
23% of emails on Iraq, 43% positive.
18% of emails on the tax cuts, 57% positive.
11% of emails on the economy, 32% positive.
6% of emails on the environment, 22% positive.
42% of emails on pleasing FLOTUS longer. Oh, and 34% of those were from Mrs. Bush herself. Should I schedule some time at Camp David, Sir?
Re:We've come a long way baby (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Hmm (Score:2, Funny)
-B
It doesn't matter... (Score:1, Funny)
Why not Bayesian filtering? (Score:2, Funny)
I can see his buckets now...
Republicans
Liberals
Kooks
Minions
Deaththreats
Bush's War on Criticism (Score:3, Funny)
Re: it all gets there anyway (Score:4, Funny)
Why bother with the web-form at all?
In a couple years (if they all get their wishes) any email you send will end up in their hands anyway, so there'll be no real need to send mail directly to them.
Re:We've come a long way baby (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I'd rather not have to deal with the DOJ... (Score:1, Funny)
Damn! I guess we're stuck with him for another term.
Re:We've come a long way baby (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I'd rather not have to deal with the DOJ... (Score:5, Funny)
It would also be an enormous ethics violation, and thanks to those geeks among us who use a different email username for each site we submit data too it would be simple to prove what was happening.
The "liberal media" (if any) would have a field day with it.
What do we tell our kids? (Score:2, Funny)
Jimmy: "I just want to tell Mr. President that he's my role model and I look up to him."
Teacher: "Well, then you support his policies Jimmy!"
Janey: "I wanted to tell Mr. President he's funny looking."
Teacher: "That's pointless. Everyone already knows that. In any case, you disagree with his policies!"
Muffin: "Uh... I dunno if I agree with his policy or not..."
Teacher: "Well, in that case, don't even bother writing him anything."
Re:Waste of the President's time. (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah, we couldn't have that. A president with a 6 feet male apparatus would have been somewhat embarassing.
Whitehouse slashdotted (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Hmm (the whitehouse spams!) (Score:3, Funny)
Well I get spam all the time from the whitehouse (www.whitehouse.com). If they are sending me spam, I think it is great they are getting it in return. And strangely enough, Bush is one horny individual. I guess this is why he is a "passionate conservative".
But in all seriousness, I wonder how many people accidently send things to the president (www.whitehouse.gov) that are intended to go to the aptly placed porn server (www.whitehouse.com). Or for that matter, how many emails for GW are actually being received by the porn server (www.whitehouse.com). Does slashdot want to interview Dan Parisi [salon.com] about this?
Send a letter to (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Hmm (Score:4, Funny)
All of these states rights movements have of course had their basis soundly in the tenth amendment. However, in general I think it's safe to say there has not been a time in american history when states rights have been advocated in a generalized way in an organized manner-- every time a states rights advocacy group pops up, it tends to have some kind of specific agenda, for example (as in the 1860s and 1960s) protecting a racist system. Today states rights advocacy groups, if you look, seem mostly to be doing so just as a tool with which to advocate either lesser restrictions on gun possession and use (if they're on the right) or lesser restrictions on pot possession and use (if they're on the left). Of course, a lot of these people seem to be much less enthusiastic about states rights' if "states rights" seems to mean that a federal anti-abortion law would be unconstitutional (if they're on the right) or that a state that doesn't allow same-sex mairrages would be allowed to view as invalid a same-sex mairrage initiated in a state that does allow them (if they're on the left)..
Incidentally, somehow, while I hear people on tv and in the newspaper all the time talking about how the 10th amendment means that rights the federal government doesn't explictly have control over should be in control of the states, I never seem to hear any press time being given to people claiming that the 10th amendment means that rights that the government doesn't explicitly have control over should belong to the people. Funny, that.
Re:We've come a long way baby (Score:2, Funny)
Mailing lists (Score:4, Funny)
The real reason for the changes... (Score:3, Funny)
It seems he'd been spending quite a bit of time reading all his email and had been receiving a large number of packages delivered in plain brown wrapping.
Turns out that the Prez now has a 32-foot-long penis, breasts the size of Dolly Parton's, has lost 399lbs of weight without exercising or dieting and is now awaiting the delivery of TWENTY FIVE MILLION US DOLLARS in unclaimed bullion from a secret fund in Nigeria.
Not only that, but he's also talking about quitting the presidency because he's been told that you can make more money stuffing envelopes just a few hours a day from home.