Instead of freely accepting e-mails like every other address, you now must state whether you agree or disagree with President Bush, in addition to completing steps on nine pages of a complex form before sending an electronic mail (now called a courriel in France, perhaps getting back for our “freedom fries” debacle) to the White House, reports the NY Times. The URL is down this A.M.

But even Jakob Neilsen has jumped in for some easy press, “It’s probably designed deliberately to cut down on their e-mail.”