Several months ago, I implemented an e-mail newsletter to provide updates to the Patently-O patent law blog. Like the blog, the newsletter is free. List members receive a daily e-mail (usually between 1 and 4 a.m. EST) that contains any new articles from the previous 24 hours. By all accounts, the newsletter is a smashing success — one reader recently wrote in that she loves reading Patently-O every morning. “I don’t drink coffee,” she writes, “so you are my caffeine kick.”
I often include images and pdf files on the blog. However, to save everyone’s bandwidth the e-mailer only contains a snippet of the text of each post. HTML links are provided for readers to click-through to the full version of the articles.
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