E-mail has long been the bane of more than a few legislative correspondents on Capitol Hill, those low-level staffers whose job it is to read and respond to incoming mail from constituents and other people looking to influence members of Congress on legislation or public policy issues.
In the vain hope of holding back the flood of e-mails to their Web sites - the House of Representatives got close to 100 million communications via Internet in 2004, according to a new ...