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'Traffic Cop' Limits E-mail to U.S. House

Posted by Susan Hall Oct 1, 2008 10:44:20 AM

The U.S. House of Representatives, beseiged by public outcry over the proposed $700 billion bailout for financial institutions, is limiting traffic to its Web site, reports The Detroit Free Press. Many users get a message telling them to try back later.

 

After millions of hits since the weekend, it has installed what it's describing as a "traffic cop" to handle the number of e-mails sent to the "Write Your Representative" function of the House Web site. That's to keep representatives' Web sites from crashing completely.

 

Spokesman Jeff Ventura told ABC News that the House server would have to be upgraded to accommodate that level of traffic, adding:

If this is sort of your barometer of what a landmark legislative event is, clearly you want to scale up to that level -- probably in the not-too-distant future.

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Oct 2, 2008 8:26 PM Guest Pattie  says:

I thought that the members of the House were supposed to represent "we the people".  I must be wrong when we cannot contact our representatives.  What is wrong with this picture when they turn us off when we want our voices heard but they are right there to have our pocketbooks picked.  Maybe all of us should vote them out of office and put some common folk in to really represent "we the common people".  I am sick and tired of hearing about the middle class. Is there a middle class in America anymore?  I think I used to be middle class.  I am now among the people at the food banks and trying to receive energy assistance and free health care.  I have COPD and can't receive help.  Let's keep it up and bail out the rich bastards that keep taking from the poor.  Let the rich get richer and let the rest of us "eat cake" because there are no problems in the United States economy.  Wake up America while we still can!

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