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Readers Have Spoken On NH Primary Letters

Started by nashuatelegraph · 10 months ago

First and foremost, I would like to thank those of you who responded to my desperate plea for help last Sunday on what to do with the growing number of letters about the presidential primary – specifically, the vote-for and don’t-vote-for letters.
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  • Dan Pelletier

    1 year ago

    As I read your blog and Mr Teeboom's comment it dawned on me you were missing something. You've been thinking paper instead of information or opinion.

    There are some letters you're going to want to print in the Telegraph, but you can quite literally publish all of them on your web site!


    Well probably not all. I'm sure there will be some that cross the line into lible. The obvious duplicates can be weeded down to a single example.


    Everything else gets posted on the web in the order received.


    It can be indexed by candidate (pro and con), topic, location of author and practically any other criteria you want.


    Check with you web people and find out how much space you can use. Then set it so that after "x" number of letters the oldest get deleted. You might even set things up so any printed letter stays in the system.


    If you want to get fancy, have a rating system for the posted letters and let any one who reads a letter and want to give it review and or a comment. That might be subject to some abuse though. Perhaps your web guru can think of someway to prevent stuffing the ballot box.


    If this idea can work you can cut back to printing only those letters that seem timely or relevant.

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