--On Tuesday, July 01, 2003 6:21 AM -0500 Charles Ess <cmess@lib.drury.edu> wrote:
In this context, I observed that in the U.S., the view seems to be that politicians are far less impressed with e-mail campaigns, precisely because they're so easy to organize, than with actual paper / postage stamped letters. (The current U.S. administration's ability to ignore e-mail protests over the past year or so regarding Iraq is perhaps an extreme example?)
There has been a good deal of attention lately to how Howard Dean, one of the less-well-known contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination, has successfully used the Internet both to become better known and to raise money. Just this morning, a front-page article in the Washington Post focused on Dean's fundraising success: <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54865-2003Jun30.html? nav=hptop_tb> Joan Joan Korenman, Director Center for Women and Information Technology University of Maryland, Baltimore County Baltimore, MD 21250 USA korenman@umbc.edu http://www.umbc.edu/cwit/