However, these people may still have access to Internet e-mail through older computers and slower connections. E-mail is an efficient way to share information with one or several individuals that an activist has already identified. It allows speedy contact with staff, members, volunteers, partners, experts, reporters, policymakers, and almost anyone else that an activist might need to reach. Additional uses are limited only by one's creativity. It is easy to restrict access to e-mail, at least when it is first sent out.
Users can simply send e-mail only to the people that they want to receive it.
Thus users can, for example, limit communications to members of an organization to avoid grass roots lobbying expenditures or comply with FEC restrictions on federal electoral advocacy. Similarly, tracking the usage of e-mail for advocacy is simple. Organizations may count the number of messages they send, the number of e-mail addresses that receive messages, or the size of the files. B. Listserves Listserves are basically bulk e-mail. They are lists of e-mail addresses maintained on a computer that distributes messages among a group of recipients.