White House E-mail System under Denial-of-Service attack

Go on hiatus for five minutes, and the fun starts. Oh well.

Anyway, the latest buzz is that the new White House e-mail the president system is staggeringly user-unfriendly, making the writer go through nine pages, selecting a subject from a list, and indicating whether you agree or disagree with the president's position. Apparently, after word got out about the new system, everybody is going to check it out, to see if it is that shockingly horrible, and have caused it to crash. Guess nobody thought it needed to be robust. Besides, donors to the president have a secret e-mail, igavetwogrand@whitehouse.gov.

Here's the article from The Register, and here's the original via Yahoo!.

Now, for a serious word. If your subject isn't in the list, you don't have the option of other. Also, what if you're writing the president about something that you don't know the president's position on?

Remember that this was the administration who said "The president doesn't have time to listen to people he doesn't agree with." So, what are happening to all of the e-mails that are marked disagreeing with the president's position? Right in the oubliette?

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Oubliette: a dungeon with an opening only at the top.