Until technology simplifies the way we address our e-mail, it will be difficult to collect addresses over the phone or in printed form. Fortunately, the cumbersome e-mail address is well understood in the digital world. The best way to transfer an e-mail address is to send a message from that address. The recipient of the message has the sending address in digital form, which can easily and accurately be added to the appropriate mailing lists. Many e-mail programs have list maintenance features that automate much of the tedium of maintaining mailing lists.
Printed material can draw list membership by including the URL where people can join a list.
Fear - Politics nurtures and requires adversaries. It's important that political organizations take e-mail precautions against the Internet baddies. Avoid revealing the members of a mailing list. If all recipients are listed in the message, anyone obtaining a copy of the message has access to your members. The test of an online system for holding elections suffered a setback last month when the Costa Rican government postponed the exercise, The New York Times reported.