Just to keep the drumbeat going on my last post that we should move from the e-mail Congress grassroots strategy to a web-based system, I do think Congress has a role to play. I argue they shouldn't be forced to ramp up their server capacity to accommodate the deluge of form e-mails but, in return, they should agree to pay attention to web-based grassroots appeals.

During the four days last week between the two House votes on the Financial Rescue package the flood of interest group generated, form letter, constituent e-mails caused the House IT department to limit them in order to prevent a server crash. (Read The Hill for the full story). This highlights, yet again, the need to augment the email Congress strategy with web-based grassroots to avoid this in the future.