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Email the President (Clinton Era)

• nonrandomstring 3y ago
  Something haunting about this relic, like a skeleton in the desert, remnants from a trusting, hopeful and optimistic age. People from just 20 years before would have marvelled at this wonderful utopian future... "Seriously, you can just send a message to POTUS using electronic mail?!" But only 30 years further on it looks like an object of mockery Did this actually function or is the "no further correspondence" a clue that they piped this whole show to /dev/null after about a week?
  • stbenjam 3y ago
    They replied by snail mail. Someone read them or at least some of them.
    • NikkiA 3y ago
      Unless you were an idiot and treated it as a joke, in which case, even outside the US (well, probably only places with US consulates), they replied with a visit by local law enforcement accompanied by a secret service agent.
  • ragnot 3y ago
    It's funny, I had that exact feeling when I opened the page but I couldn't put into words. Thank you for that.