My post about writing emails gets peopel to... write me emails. Good stuff.

Something more wonderful has been happening for the last couple of days: the number of people who reached me by email reached (or is about to reach) double digits for the first time since… well, since I started having a blog, I think. Oh, and I say “more wonderful” because getting the communication I’m already getting is wonderful. I always had folks reaching out, though usually through Mastodon or Micro.blog (which is kind of Mastodon also, in a way) and when I wrote about Emacs or org-mode. This time it’s just other bloggers and readers saying hello. It seems most of them were motivated by my post about, well, writing other bloggers emails… can’t get more to the point than that! I’m going through the careful process of reading each email fast (to get a feel for it), then seeing if the person who sent it has a website (most of the time, they do), then researching this website to see if I’m adding them to my RSS feed (Inkwell is handling a lot of testing recently), then reading the…