*** Democracies Online Newswire - http://www.e-democracy.org/do *** This is pretty amazing. The new Prime Minister of Japan <http://www.kantei.go.jp/> recently launched an e-mail newsletter and it already has 1,000,000 members. I doubt that any world leader has an e-list this large - are you aware of other e-mail newsletters coming directly from national heads of state/government? What are they used for? How big are they? In this case, what attracted so many subscribers? Steven Clift Democracies Online, http://e-democracy.org/do From: http://www.nhk.or.jp/daily/watch/main06.html (Probably a temporary link) More than one-million subscribe to Koizumi's e-mail magazine Want to know what Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is planning in the way of structural reform? Starting today, you can find out through e-mail, although it's only in Japanese. The Prime Minister has launched an e-mail magazine as a way to explain his policies. The e-mail magazine is distributed directly from Mr. Koizumi's office every Thursday, free of charge to subscribers. More than one-million people had subscribed to the magazine as of Thursday evening. Mr. Koizumi said he was surprised that such a large number of people have subscribed. He said it's good that so many people are interested in politics. Prime Minister Koizumi said it will be a major challenge for his administration to make use of the magazine. He said he hopes to work interactively with readers who send him their opinions. *** Please send submissions to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** To subscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** Message body: SUB DO-WIRE *** *** To unsubscribe instead, write: UNSUB DO-WIRE *** *** Please forward this post to others and encourage *** *** them to subscribe to the free DO-WIRE service. ***
