Mercury News | 04/23/2003 | Forest Service wants to ignore mass e-mails

In a move that could dismantle an increasingly popular type of citizen activism, a federal agency is proposing to ignore form letters sent by the public via e-mail that provide feedback on pending rules and regulations.

Is this a quelching of public input or a way to get people to think about their positions and expressions of those positions instead of blindly hitting a Submit button?