Frequently Asked Questions
- Where does this information come from?
- White House information I add by hand, myself. The House of Representatives and the Senate come from Grace York. I automatically update from that file once a month.
- Why not add an “e-mail everyone” link?
- ElectedNet is meant to be a means for you to contact your representatives with your concerns. It is not meant to be a means of spamming people you don’t know. You are perfectly welcome to choose each and every representative, but you’re still going to have to choose them consciously. You have to know who you’re e-mailing to.
- Why do we have to use our own e-mail client?
- Because your mail is likely to have more impact if it comes from you rather than from me. If I set ElectedNet to send all mail from my server, that’s going to be something that your representatives can recognize. And they’ll end up paying even less attention to your mail than they already do.
- Why are there so few e-mail addresses?
- You really need to ask your representative this, but most likely the answer is spam. A lot of people all over the web are switching from e-mail to web forms in order to avoid wading through too much spam. You’ll be hard-pressed to find my e-mail address on this site, for example, and the one you do find gets so much spam you might not get through to me.
- Did the URL change recently?
- Yes. After about ten years, I’ve redesigned my site. Any links should be automatically redirected—with search terms intact—to the new page. But you’ll want to update your links to reflect the new URL, which should last for at least as long as the old URL did. Basically, remove “enet.cgi” from the end of the URL and remove “html/” from the beginning of the URL’s path.
