opinions-political-massLettersMailing

Hi, I was recently contacted to send an email through your site about the western arctic.

I was about to send the email but your software required that I edit the subject line. As a consequence, I did not send the email.

Perhaps you wanted me to edit the subject line so as to give the recipient some indication that I read the letter. But a more nefarious possibility is that you want to prevent the recipient from easily grouping all of the form letters together.

I feel it is not a constructive approach to bombard whichever office this is being sent with with a number of similar emails that are purposefully hard to identify as such. I want to let them know the truth without making their day more difficult; the truth is that I have read your form letter and support your stance on this issue although I don't know or care enough about the details to write my own email. That is communicated by me sending them a form letter. Making the subject headings distinct adds only the negligable additional information that I cared enough to type in a new subject heading; however, it may increase the effort that the person at the other end must spend to process the emails.

This additional effort is not productive to anyone and may generate resentment. In addition, it makes those comments which are truly unique stand out less.

So, perhaps you could remove the requirement to alter the subject line from your software. If you disagree with me that such alterations are unproductive, perhaps you could make the requirement a suggestion that I could bypass. Thanks, bayle

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