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Re:NSA: Please Stop Mailing Us FOIA Requests by tsaoutourpants on Friday June 21, 2013 @03:26PM (#5920379)
I am quite sure that the fact that they are getting so many requests will travel up higher than the paper handlers. :)
Re:NSA: Please Stop Mailing Us FOIA Requests by surrealize on Friday June 21, 2013 @03:28PM (#5920392)
I hope so. Thinking about it some more: I suppose they don't provide an efficient online form for motions to quash, do they?
Re:NSA: Please Stop Mailing Us FOIA Requests by tsaoutourpants on Friday June 21, 2013 @03:29PM (#5920401)
Nope ;)
Re:NSA: Please Stop Mailing Us FOIA Requests by ejdyksen on Friday June 21, 2013 @03:46PM (#5920518)
What makes you so sure?
Re:NSA: Please Stop Mailing Us FOIA Requests by cinquemb on Friday June 21, 2013 @03:54PM (#5920573)
Well doing nothing is one way to be sure that it won't travel up to the higher ups.
Re:NSA: Please Stop Mailing Us FOIA Requests by tsaoutourpants on Friday June 21, 2013 @03:52PM (#5920557)
ESP
Re:NSA: Please Stop Mailing Us FOIA Requests by dfc on Friday June 21, 2013 @03:45PM (#5920511)
So they can augment their budget estimates for next year's FOIA compliance program?
Re:NSA: Please Stop Mailing Us FOIA Requests by gasull on Friday June 21, 2013 @04:21PM (#5920747)
Is doing nothing better?
Re:NSA: Please Stop Mailing Us FOIA Requests by dfc on Friday June 21, 2013 @05:53PM (#5921257)
Respectfully, what is this accomplishing?
Re:NSA: Please Stop Mailing Us FOIA Requests by gasull on Friday June 21, 2013 @06:37PM (#5921474)
It makes it more expensive to run this Stasi-like surveillance program.

You can use your argument to anything. E.g. what is your previous comment accomplishing?

Re:NSA: Please Stop Mailing Us FOIA Requests by dfc on Friday June 21, 2013 @07:07PM (#5921612)
My previous comment was describing my best guess to what information is run up the flagpole and to what end. These people think that PRISM stops terrorists you think a couple extra hundred dollars is going to convince them its not worth the effort.

I do not mean to be critical of the poster, any involvement is better than none. However I do not think the best path forward is acting as if something is being done when it is not is not.

I think that someone who can build a website like this could make a much more useful one. Instead of preaching to the choir preach to the unconverted (Elected Officials, Mom, Dad, Grocery Clerk). Let people submit address/zip and then return a phone script and the name/numbers of your senators and your representative. Or populate a pdf file with all the information so that someone can put it in an envelope, copy the address given and add a stamp