If you sign up, you'll receive periodic a e-mail survey from Harris on races in your state. Then you'll get a reply on what's happening in races in your state according to the poll. Internet mailing lists are becoming a popular and powerful tool for campaigns and activists. They are great tools for politics because they provide low-cost, fast communications to targeted activists or supporters. They are great for notifying supporters about events, alerting them about bills, steering them toward your Web pages and distributing news.
Mailing lists are so effective that everyone seems to have one.
You can't browse long these days without some page asking you to join their list. Such demand forces writers of Action Alerts to do more to stand apart from the crowd. For details and tips, see NetPulse 2.17. A Pitney Bowes survey mentioned in Business Week shows that the average office worker gets or sends 190 total daily messages from phones, faxes, e-mail or regular mail. E-mail, according to one analyst, has the potential for wreaking havoc on somebody's work day because it's pressuring workers to respond quicker.