The Passing Deliverability Storm

05:00 PM Oct 06, 2006

I promise to work in a new topic or two soon. But with the Washington Post deigning to attend to our little industry, this is the week for congressional e-mail deliverability, and in the wake of all the sound and fury, here's a quick wrap to launch your holiday (maybe) weekend.

DIA's own Monday response to the Capitol Advantage study that churned up so much frothiness was widely linked, not least by Capitol Advantage itself, which quickly footnoted its study. Our post generated the traffic spike documented at right to our usually bucolic blog, and a bit of good discussion in the comments section as well.

Meanwhile, conversation on the Progressive Exchange e-mail list indicated that knowledge of the paradoxical nature of write-your-rep actions -- great for generating actions, miserable for moving votes in the legislature -- has become widely known in the advocacy space, and perhaps is soon to be widely known in the general public.

Beth Kanter's trawl through the NPtech tag stream hooked several additional comments, not a few of which this author immodestly confesses to contributing through DIA's del.icio.us page. The Agitator and Dr. Digipol especially, sketched out the Gordian knot pretty thoroughly. And though it's nothing to do specifically with this tempest, Colin Delany also addressed the matter -- its practical implications, its alternatives -- in the context of his wonderfully comprehensive how-to manual on Internet advocacy that deserves a more exhaustive post than I've had time to give it.

Fun problem. Like some guy said about the poor, it'll be with us for a while.

And now your weekend tease: we'll be dropping some news on this next week that our campaign managers ought to be pretty interested in. Happy Dia de la Resistencia Indigena!

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