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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