A quote from Brian Harradine (you can read the entire text at:
http://demos.anu.edu.au:7007/cgi-bin/pastimepub/article.pl?dir=years/1999/apr/21/hansard/sen&art=10)
"I also found very useful the thousands and thousands of letters and phone calls that I received from people throughout Australia. I
have to apologise that I have not been able to answer them all or even a majority of them. Let us face it: unfortunately in a position like
mine, which is an undesirable situation, you do get a huge volume of mail. One day in December last year 2,300 actual pieces of mail
came to me--and that is not counting the email. Whoever invented email ought to be strung up!
So I do apologise for not answering
them all. I take this opportunity of thanking my very dedicated staff for the way they have handled all of these matters.
"
Highlands Internet hopes that the point of view expressed by the good Senator
regarding email is not indicative of our Parliamentarian viewpoint as a whole -
otherwise, we're not going to be the 'clever' country for much longer.
Regards,
Saliya