Yes, I admit it. I didn’t take e-mail seriously until I obtained the capability for it myself.
Some of you tried to give me your e-mail addresses, but I blew it off by pointing out that I wasn’t online, so e-mail wasn’t important.
Now that I’m on CompuServe, I’ve changed my tune. It’s not quite as bad as a Republican congressman flip-flopping on term limits as soon as his party wins the majority in both houses, but it comes pretty @#$!! close.
This is my confession: I’m a cyberspace hypocrite.
Having exchanged e-mail with some people and joined CompuServe’s forum on firearms, I realize that being online can be a major convenience, as well as a means for quickly exercising my rights as an American citizen. I have sought, unsuccessfully, to e-mail my congressman, but settled for telling Newt Gingrich’s office they could feel free to use my name (for what it’s worth) to pressure my congressman into joining the information age.
Now that I know how wrong I’ve been about e-mail, I want very much to rectify the situation. So I’m requesting now that any RKBA member who is connected to the Internet, either directly—or at least, as directly as is possible, given the realities of the ‘Net—or through a service like CompuServe or America Online, to contact me via e-mail so that I will have your online addresses. I also ask that you let me know if you have any objection to your e-mail addresses being made available to other RKBA members.
I envision the e-mail information being included in the annual member address list, absent any objections. Those whose computers are online around the clock may have understandable concerns even though the members of this SIG are, without exception, the salt of the earth.
Having an e-mail box at CompuServe means alerts and information you send me can arrive in minutes instead of days, and if it’s especially pressing I may be able to relay it to those SIG members who are online mere minutes after you’ve sent it to me.
Those who are not on CompuServe can e-mail me through the Internet; my CompuServe address formatted for the Internet is
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[Editor’s note, May 2007: of course, that email address is long since obsolete and invalid; the link goes to my present-day email address instead.]
You can also submit articles for The Armed Genius, if they are brief enough to make it through the CompuServe portal (upper limit, 50,000 words). However, be advised that CompuServe bills the recipient “postage” for Internet-originated e-mail.
