News-Record.com

For the past couple of years, our Web site has offered a free subscription to a daily e-newsletter, compiled and transmitted around midafternoon most weekdays, containing the day's headlines and breaking news as well as an updated weather forecast and some other information.

We're examining whether that newsletter still serves a useful purpose. If you tell us that it does, we may still want to change it to make it even more useful to you. If you tell us that it does not, we'll want to know what other services you might want us to offer in this area. (We already know that an expanded range of RSS feeds, to name just one example, is high on a lot of people's wish lists.)

If you don't want to wait 'til this afternoon's letter, you can fill out the survey now and e-mail your responses to me. (You might want to cc this address in case our e-mail server acts up again.) Here it is:

1) How long have you subscribed to the newsletter?

2) How often do you follow any of the links included in it?

3) Would you rate it as a) very useful, b) somewhat useful, c) not very useful or d) not useful?

4) What feature(s) do you find most useful? Why?

5) What feature(s) do you find least useful? Why?

6) What change(s) would you make if given the chance?

7) What other format(s) should the N&R consider for providing you with middle-of-the-day news updates? (e.g., RSS, wireless text messages, etc.)

8) How often would you like to receive such updates? a) daily; b) every couple of hours; c) hourly; d) more often than hourly; e) whenever news breaks.

9) Do you have any other comments about the e-newsletter service?

Thanks for your help!