Letters To and From Reichert

Earlier today I received the following email, seemingly blind copied on a communication to Dave Reichert, Congressman representing the tech savvy 8th District (a seat that even more tech savvy Darcy Burner is seeking to take this November):

Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 02:32:03 +0000
From: maryandjoe...@...
Reply-to: maryandjoe...@...
To: REICHERT-WA08@ls1.house.gov
Subject: US Ports Deal

2/21/06

Dear Rep Reichert:

What on earth is going on in our Executive Branch? What the hell is GW thinking with the recommendation of an Arab world company taking over an managing six US ports? Heck, just the image of such a thing is repulsive let alone letting it actually happen. I have heretofore been a supporter of GW, but my enthusiasim for him has wained; and, his arrogance and bully tatctics have tipped me against him in this situation. I heard you had voiced concern over his ploy to get this Port deal passed and that he'd veto any action stating he's trying to get foreign policy establsihed. What the hell happend to thinking about US policy? Press on, Rep Reichert with your efforts to disuade the US from this decision. I've had it with this president...it appears it is time we had someone else in the oval office, Republican or Democrat is not the point, unless we're talking Hillary, in which case let's all run for the hills.

Holy moly, how could we get so far off base?

Joe ......
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Issaquah, WA .....
maryandjoe...@...

So I was scratching my head wondering why I received this email, until I received the following email:

Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 10:46:38 -0500
From: "Reichert, Representative"
Reply-to: "Reichert, Representative"
To: REICHERT-WA08@ls1.house.gov
Subject: Reichert Apologizes for Newsletter List Error

Today, we realized that due to an internal technical mistake, two e-mails sent to an unattended e-mail address were inadvertently sent to my newsletter list. I apologize for this mistake and for any unintended messages that may have reached your inbox. We have fixed the problem. I also want to assure you that your e-mail address isn’t public information and that it has not been shared by this office, nor will it be.

Thank you for your understanding and I again apologize for any inconvenience it has caused you.

Sincerely,

Dave Reichert
Member of Congress

Doh!

However, I only received one of the supposed two emails, and it was sent to REICHERT-WA08@ls1.house.gov, the same address in Reichert's "To:" field of his email.

No wonder Reichert is so slow at responding to emails when an email address he gives out in his own correspondence is an "unattended e-mail address".

And did they really fix the problem, perhaps by redirecting email to the unattended REICHERT-WA08@ls1.house.gov address, or is that now an email address that they're monitoring now?

Feel free to send Reichert an email to find out!