# Kintera helps clients in face of new legislators' "email logic puzzles"

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2006/08/08/kintera-helps-clients-face-new-legislators039-quotemail-logic-puzzlesquot/
- Published: 2006-08-08T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

US online fundraising and campaigning service Kintera has explained to its advocacy
clients how it is responding to the introduction by the House of Representatives
and Senate of new ’email logic puzzles’, designed to prevent mass emails and spam.

The new Congressional defences mean that mass email campaigns by nonprofits using
the Write Your Rep web forms are impossible, since each message can only be sent
if the sender answers a logic puzzle designed to demonstrate that they are a person
and not a mass-emailing software programme.

Kintera is adopting a dual approach. First, it points out that any emails not delivered
to a political representative are held back and then sent by fax.

Secondly, Kintera says that it is working with “the legislative community to implement
solutions that maintain the integrity of the relationships between advocacy groups
and their grassroots networks, and Congress and their constituents.”

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The company argues that “logic puzzles do not benefit the organizations and citizens
trying to get their messages heard, or our representatives, who want and need to
hear from their constituent base.”

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