Please write in your own words, and preferably from your own e-mail address! I can't see getting a bazillion of copies of the same message being anything but annoying and I wouldn't be surprised if they block the sender of such tools.

I wrote to them last time this was voted on and expected zero replies (partly due to the late hour), but actually got 2 out of 13, one of which indicated they had actually taken a few seconds to read some of my words. I later read they had received "thousands" of messages on the subject. I can't imagine most of them getting anything close to even this small amount of attention.

Thank you, I've now used this to send an email to my representatives.

Having called a few of them and spoken to them on the phone about this they are mostly pissed off about the cookie-cutter emails spamming them about this but quite happy to talk about it on the phone.

On the other hand, some of us are much better at typing than talking. And some might have a fit of social phobia at the mere thought of a phone call.

The templates might be tedious, but they are there for people who would otherwise post some random flame or rant. Pages encouraging phone calls have scripted templates on them too.

Yeah and that's fine, personal emails were quite well received. Template emails were universally ignored, regardless of which side of the issue the representative stood.