The feedback between websites and associated lists offers major advantages for activists. They appeal to different markets, and each can direct people to the other. Lists, with the personal contacts they encourage, the vast volume of news and argument they distribute, and their low cost and high speed are near the core of the internet's value to activists. All the local leftists chime in right on key whenever their side launches a new national or international campaign.
Lists are a big factor in their wide-scale coordination of ideas and actions.
A friend who monitors some enemy traffic reports that they have an extensive network of lists on almost every imaginable topic. I expect the intial volume of the Quackgrass Roots Network to be about 30 to 60 posts per month, but growing as I find new sources. I'll be sending requests to various interesting people to keep me informed on their site updates, news relevant to their specialty, and their new thoughts. I'll also be sending QRN brief observations of my own that either don't merit a full- dress article, or that I haven't yet figured out how to jam into the restrictive mold of a Quackgrass Press article. I'll send posts as blind carbon copies, so subscribers' email addresses will not be broadcast to the world.