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   Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jan-2025 17:10:58 JST Yuchen Pei
   I've heard more about staffers gatekeeping politicians by redirecting people's complaints to /dev/null.
   
   My workaround has been: if I want to complain by email about X to politician A, I add a politician B who agrees with me on X in the CC, who can potentially act as a witness.
   
   But there's no guarantee that B's staffer will not redirect my email to /dev/null, or that B is not a buddy of A.
   
   Maybe a better solution is something like http://alaveteli.org/, the FOI server software that allows people to send public FOI request emails to government departments and receive public replies from them. So one could put a CC to a designated email address which will publish the email online, and as added benefits others can adapt from these emails. I wonder whether such server software already exists.
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     LostInCalifornia (lostincalifornia@spinster.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jan-2025 17:48:56 JST LostInCalifornia

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     @quasi My understanding is that politicians take snail mail letters more seriously than emails.

     I'd send a copy of your email via post.

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