Re: [Patents] campaign plans on mailing lists

[Seth Johnson <seth.johnson@RealMeasures.dyndns.org>]

Hartmut Pilch wrote:
> 
> The participation system at
> 
>         http://aktiv.ffii.org/eubsa/en/
> 
> has been quite helpful in this.  It is easier to outreach to this smaller
> circle of supporters than to the petition signatories, because some of the
> latter feel that writing to them is spam.
> 
> The participation system does not solve all the problems of coordination
> though.  Blasting information to mailing lists is even less often a
> solution.
> 
> Planning, reporting etc need to have top priority.


This is all very good.  Re posting to mailing lists -- this has only limited
usefulness.  We at New Yorkers for Fair Use emphasize on-the-street outreach
combined with targeted actions.  I have for the last two years focused
efforts on identifying broad constituencies online.

Seth Johnson


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