I received a request from an SNP MSP today to remove the MSP from the mailing list, as the person concerned felt unable to make a positive response to my blogs. I immediately agreed, of course. (I do welcome comment, positive or negative, and will publish where requested comments that meet normal criteria and are on topic.)
I have a very limited blog circulation active mailing list. I circulate SNP MSPs simply as a courtesy to inform them that a new blog has been posted, together with a small number of SNP officials – they do not represent my target audience, which is anyone interested in Scottish politics.
(I also circulate a very small number of friends and one or two other contacts who expressed an interest).
To avoid similar unwelcome emailing, I have therefore closed this list. Even on the unlikely premise that everyone on it reads every blog posting, it represent a small proportion of my readership, based on my blog monitoring statistics and incoming emails and comments.
If anyone who was in receipt of blog notification emails wishes me to continue, please let me know by email or directly.
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I didn't know there was such a thing as a "blog mailing list" - I read all my blogs via RSS.
ReplyDeleteWhat exactly is the difference?
Regards
People find and read blogs by various means, JohnB, and have widely varying levels of internet savvy. For example, the term - and the use of - RSS feeds would produce blank stares from probably a majority of the population.
ReplyDeleteThe blog mailing list I referred to in my post was simply a list of SNP MSPs, plus a handful of other contacts who had asked that I let them know each time I posted. It was intended as a convenience for them, since it contained principally Scottish politics with an SNP agenda.
But since it can also be perceived as spam, and has been by one or two recipients, I have decided to discontinue it.
I have a separate email list of press and media contacts who have asked specifically to be so notified on a confidential basis, and I will maintain this.
Someone like yourself who is well-organaised and internet-savvy is missed nothing by not being on the list. I have contemplated a request-only, private access blog, but decided against it, since I want the widest possible readership of ordinary Scots voters - and other interested parties.
It takes all types and involves even more.
ReplyDeleteI read your blogs and they are informative, entertaining and generally smarter than anything calling itself 'comment' or ' opinion' in the MSM.
If you were pleasing everyone then you would be pleasing no-one.
My primary school reading book had a story called "The Fool who tried to please everybody" It made a lasting impression on me, Stevie.
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