Online newsletters

Related approaches for Web-based chapter bulletins that are not emailed:

• Readers "subscribe" to page using Internet Explorer's Favorites/offline content feature.
• Readers use one of the free site-monitoring services, such as web2mail (www.web2mail.com), described on their site as follows:

  web2mail is a new service designed to make your life easier. Use web2mail to have your favorite web pages delivered by email whenever they change. By using web2mail, you don't need to keep checking web pages to see if they've been updated - we watch the web so you don't have to.
  Reasons to use web2mail:

  • Convenience: have all your favorite pages delivered in an email.
  • Intelligence: only read web pages when they have been updated.
  • Persistence: use a mail folder to keep your favorite web pages.

  Some examples:

  • Create your own morning newspaper of your favorite news pages.
  • Receive the reference pages you rely on whenever they are updated.
  • Keep a record of your stock portfolio by storing pages in a mail folder.

  In fact, bulletin editors might use this service to make it easy to post a bulletin once and have it automagically e-mailed to their readers.