Does anybody know the origin of the so-called Welborn Protocol? The concept is simple: all correspondence to an adhering blog is bloggable unless otherwise specified. The history isn't so simple. I tried Googling for it and found a few references to the concept but found nothing about its origins. Any ideas?
Funky Dung
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It's the rule on Amy Welborn's weblog, open book. (Her blog used to be named something else, but I forget now what it was.) Anyway, in brief, any e-mail message sent to the blog's address will be considered "bloggable" unless otherwise specified by the sender.
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Posted 30 May 2005 at 9:53 pm ¶I guess I should have been more specific. I was wondering what occasioned its birth and how did it get its name? Lots of blogs have policies based on experiences, usually negative, but few get named and fewer are named for a particular blogger.
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Posted 31 May 2005 at 3:42 am ¶I'd suggest you email Amy and ask. But not 'til next week, as she is out of town.
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Posted 31 May 2005 at 5:25 pm ¶Other bloggers just adopted her policy, and somebody (I don't know who) decided to name that policy the Welborn Protocol. I don't think there's anything more to it than that.
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