Is this the future I signed up for?
Snippet from an administrative email from
GetActive.com, who manage a lot of political email campaigns...
Over the past week, email sent to President Bush (or any other advocacy target at @whitehouse.gov) has been difficult or impossible to deliver. The Whitehouse mail system has been refusing to establish connections with external email servers and is reporting that its service is unavailable now. This is not a problem specific to messages sent from the GetActive system: email from other domains is also not getting through. We are actively investigating the problem. Repeated inquiries to technical staff at the Whitehouse remain unanswered.
For now, it appears that the Whitehouse is either blocking all inbound email, or only allowing a small percentage of inbound mail through. Given this situation, we recommend that you temporarily stop targeting the Whitehouse via email in your Advocacy campaigns. Remember, you can always still target the Whitehouse for delivery via fax.
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Sigh...
Posted by Liz at January 20, 2004 07:12 PM