Email response policy

From DoWire Wiki

In July 2003 the Bush Administration instituted a new, doubleplusgood, email response policy [1]

"Under a system deployed on the White House Web site for the first time last week, those who want to send a message to President Bush must now navigate as many as nine Web pages and fill out a detailed form that starts by asking whether the message sender supports White House policy or differs with it."

Best practice: get your enemies to add themselves to your enemies list.

The White House says the new e-mail system, at [www.whitehouse.gov/webmail whitehouse.gov/webmail], is "an effort to be more responsive to the public and offer the administration "real time" access to citizen comments."

Completing a message to the president also requires choosing a subject from the provided list, then entering a full name, organization, address and e-mail address. Once the message is sent, the writer must wait for an automated response to the e-mail address listed, asking whether the addressee intended to send the message. The message is delivered to the White House only after the person using that e-mail address confirms it.

Jimmy Orr, a White House spokesman, described the system as an "enhancement" intended to improve communications. He called it a "work in progress," and advised members of the public who had sensitive or personal matters to bring up with President Bush to use traditional methods of communications, like a letter on paper, a fax or a phone call."

Best practice: ignore email and electronic communication entirely, since the public are all trolls.