Not everyone is as on-line as others. If your audience is largely techie, this is probably not an issue. Otherwise ...
I have no strong preference for relatively short amounts of text. Something that is no more than a pamphlet can be as readily acessed on the web site as not. But LONG, information-heavy things I want on paper, for all the ways in which paper offers more flexiblity than computer screens. FKO progress report works fine for me on-line. Worldcon progress reports would not.
Sending forms to be filled (registration forms, for example) via email can be problematic, especially since different mailers and browsers handle forms differently. Not *everyone* is on Microsoft.
You might run into trouble with spam filters. Each comcon would have to decide how important that is in expanding or contracting its audience pool. You might also run into a problem with folks whose main email is job-related, and possibly off-limits to such mailings.
For people like my better half, email works better than snail mail -- most of the snail mail is mine, anyway. For people like me, however, you're risking my not noticing you in the list in my email box, whereas paper gets noticed, if for no other reason than I have to pay attention to what I can simply pitch vs what I have to carefully shred vs payment checks.
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Not everyone is as on-line as others. If your audience is largely techie, this is probably not an issue. Otherwise ...
I have no strong preference for relatively short amounts of text. Something that is no more than a pamphlet can be as readily acessed on the web site as not. But LONG, information-heavy things I want on paper, for all the ways in which paper offers more flexiblity than computer screens. FKO progress report works fine for me on-line. Worldcon progress reports would not.
Sending forms to be filled (registration forms, for example) via email can be problematic, especially since different mailers and browsers handle forms differently. Not *everyone* is on Microsoft.
You might run into trouble with spam filters. Each comcon would have to decide how important that is in expanding or contracting its audience pool. You might also run into a problem with folks whose main email is job-related, and possibly off-limits to such mailings.
For people like my better half, email works better than snail mail -- most of the snail mail is mine, anyway. For people like me, however, you're risking my not noticing you in the list in my email box, whereas paper gets noticed, if for no other reason than I have to pay attention to what I can simply pitch vs what I have to carefully shred vs payment checks.
HTH