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davman

I believe that we who oppose Kerry should pull together th show our opposition in a big way. I think we should all email the Boston Globe and Fox news, at the same time, to have more of an impact. Write to show how much we oppose his prescence in the Senate, and his run for the presidency! If we get enough people to do so, maybe it will have an impact. I choose these two media outlets because one is Kerry's hometown paper, the other is the highest rated network news. Then maybe we can do the same thing to two others next week!

SangRun Hunter · PO1 Joined: 10 Sep 2004 Posts: 462 Location: Zinzinnati

I'm all for it and I have been sending notes to all kinds of sources.

I say we pick a time and date to do it synchronized.

Admin, can we get a sticky made to do this? The bloggers and other site owners here could post it out on their sites as well.
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SooZQ · Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 2:17 pm Post subject:

Count me in too! Very Happy

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dusty · Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 3:53 pm Post subject:

Just don't break their mail servers with a flood of mail in a short span of time.
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I'm only half joking here folks.

Dusty

MOCitizenForTruth · Seaman Recruit Joined: 23 Aug 2004 Posts: 12

count me in!!! Just post the message and the date/time. I'm so frustrated and I feel like my letters just get put in the trash. Maybe if it is enmasse and coordinated it may have an impact.

davman · Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 5:28 pm Post subject:

letter@globe.com

foxnewsonline@foxnews.com

The adress for the Globe and Fox. Hope this makes it easier!

hanna · Rear Admiral Joined: 07 Aug 2004 Posts: 701

Actually, if there is a very large barage of e-mail like that, they will simply be shut down and dumped and never read. They have to protect their servers and that is reasonable to expect. Besides, if you shut down their servers, what good is that?

I have also wondered what we could do collectively, all at once at a specific time or day or whatever. The only thing I can think of is to run with our lights on during the day for the next 30 days......Lights for Bush.

Navy_Navy_Navy · Admin Joined: 07 May 2004 Posts: 5777

May I strongly caution you to not use canned letters in your campaign?

When a mail server is receiving a spike in the number of messages, it is trivial for the sysadmin to track down the cause being canned mail and dev/null messages that contain specific phrases. The cyber-equivalent of File 13. ;)

Please write your own letters.

Keep them brief and concise - one or two points. No dissertations, even if you have the "firepower" to write one. If you start to go past two points, consider whether you have to make this third point in this letter, or if you can simply split your ideas into two or more letters.

Use appropriate formatting (paragraphs) and punctuation and capitalization. Use your spell checker.

Use your own words, natural language. If two-dollar words aren't part of your daily vocabulary, leave them out of your letter. Words from the heart and mind and your own opinion.

Be polite. Use bolding or italics to emphasize words instead of CAPITALS. Don't use all bold or italic, as it can make your letter difficult to read.

Short, polite, original wording... keep those in mind and you'll have a much better chance of being heard by those to whom you wish to speak.

Good luck! :)
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SangRun Hunter · PO1 Joined: 10 Sep 2004 Posts: 462 Location: Zinzinnati

Thank you Triple N for the solid advice and blessing of luck.
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SangRun Hunter · PO1 Joined: 10 Sep 2004 Posts: 462 Location: Zinzinnati

As suggested by Navy_Navy_Navy in a PM reply to me.

davman · Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 7:36 pm Post subject:

letters@suntimes.com

editor@nysun.com

These are the email adresses for the Sun Times and NY Sun letters to the editor.

SangRun Hunter · PO1 Joined: 10 Sep 2004 Posts: 462 Location: Zinzinnati

letter@globe.com

foxnewsonline@foxnews.com

letters@suntimes.com

editor@nysun.com

There we have them thanks to davman for supplying the addy's.

I'll post what I send here in a little bit as an example.

Time to write? Shall we make a date to start or should we just say from now until next Friday?

Anyone can write whenever they want, but we do want impact and a unified front for a specific time period.
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SangRun Hunter · PO1 Joined: 10 Sep 2004 Posts: 462 Location: Zinzinnati

Below is my letter,

I kept is short, but it could be shorter. Maybe sending a link to another source for the Colliers story could be included in other letters.

Maybe just the subjest line could contain the questions.

SooZQ · Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 8:51 pm Post subject:

Hey, Here's an old fashioned idea. How about everyone send a hard copy letter to the respective news organizations on the same day.
For instance, everyone prepare one or two letters this weekend, polite, short like 3xNavy suggests. Then on Monday we all drop them in the mail.
No servers going down, and tons of letters flooding the mail rooms!

Whatcha think? Razz

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truthserum · Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 9:01 pm Post subject:

I'm in on the deal.

I think we all need to email PBS too criticizing Lehrer for the softball questions he gave to Kerry. He could have questioned Kerry on his 20 yr anti defense record but he didn't. He could have asked Kerry who these "allies" were that he was going to call on and name them. He let Kerry slide on explaining his "4 point" plan to get out of Iraq, letting Kerry refer people to his website. How nice. A lot of people don't have web access, probably the poorer people and uneducated on computers, people likely to vote for Kerry. As far as I'm concerned he gave Kerry a big pass last night. PBS needs donations from people all the time, even though they get government grants to spew their liberal stuff at all of us who pay for it.

To this day, Kerry's 20 yr. record remains untouched except on Hannity & Colmes.
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