Political Networking

National Review, July 28, 1997 by Norman Matloff

Is all this impressive? Certainly. Is it technologically difficult? Absolutely not. Anyone with a modem and rudimentary knowledge of the Net can do it. And once the word spreads on how effective these tactics can be, we can all look forward to occasional days on which impending House votes cause traffic jams on the Information Highway.

Mr. Matloff, a former software developer in Silicon Valley, is a professor of computer studies at the University of California at Davis.