[SpamCop-List] Re: How do I send emails to xenophobic paranoid Attorney General offices?

[eddie]

On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 14:53:56 +1200, brewman scratched out the following:

> I'm trying to send a report about a website administered from Arizona
> (hidden behind a facade so I can't use SC, unless I .. no, let's not go
> there) to the Attorney General's office in Arizona, email address
> aginquiries at ag <dot< state:az;us and getting bounced with 501 'Blocked
> by Filter 0'
> I even tried postmaster@ and got same result. I emailed the US Embassy
> here (New Zealand) and a similar thing happened. Are the yanks really so
> paranoid about foreigners, or do they think that allowing stuff from
> outside the borders of good ol' US of A is tantamount to believing in
> SETI?
> BTW I also tried from another ISP hosted in NZ and also got 501. Anyone
> any ideas on how I can scale the ramparts and toss an email into their
> midst?

I challenge your xenophobia concept. How would the US embassy in NZ know
you were a New Zealander just by your email address?? Wouldn't an American
in New Zealand have a New Zealand email address? Are you saying even
Americans in New Zealand cannot email their embassy? Think about that.
I suspect you have quite a different problem.
I looked at the Arizona website and did not find any email addresses. In
fact they state that they should be contacted by phone, mail or online
form:
"You may contact us by phone or mail for information and/or a complaint
form. Once you have done this, please mail us photocopies of your
supporting documents, including the form if submitting by mail..."

Have you submitted your complaint via any of their numerous online forms?
Perhaps they, like the FBI and other US agencies, do not accept email but
only online forms in order to reduce spam and frivolous complaints.
It could also be that both ISPs you used are on spam blocking lists.
But do not think we are xenophobic based on a few bounced emails. It
would take a lot  more than that to convince me, especially since you
could be an American student in NZ, or a contractor or a tourist - and you
think that filters could tell by the accent? (That was a joke, sir). What
you are implying is that an Arizona student cannot email home because
Arizone is xenophonic. Come on, you are not using your gray cells to their
max.