Thanks to everyone who got back to me about whether the extra click would be a problem if the email you receive only carries the beginning of my posts instead of the whole shebang. The comments were useful, and enlightening, and guilt inducing. Because even though a couple of people said the extra click was a pain in the neck, the number of visits to the blog went up. And the gods of blogdom like visits. I do want to keep everyone happy, but the gods must be appeased. So at least for now, I’m going to keep the opening-only format for emails. I hope you’ll click through to the rest of the posts. And I hope you’ll love me anyway.
Or–to hell with love–I hope you’ll read me.
Notes from the U.K. 
Ellen,
I’m quite happy with the (new) format. In fact, I like it more. Sometimes, with other blogs I’m subscribed to, it takes a while for e-mails to fully appear, especially if the posts contain many pictures. I don’t really like that so much.
Have a great day,
Pit
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That’s good to know.
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I’ve read elsewhere that it’s good practice if you are concerned about copyright or theft of your work. It happens, or so I’m told. You reduce the temptation by truncating your posts. I don’t mind it at all, surfing on through to the site. I actually prefer it.
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It does bring me to the site, and I sometimes browse a bit. And if I’m in a hurry, I wouldn’t read the post anyway.
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I can assure you, it’ll take more than a mere click to keep me away!
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Good choice.
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You did good on those priorities. Love is good, but readers on your blog ARE even better! I had to laugh when I read that last sentence. And I can imagine you saying it in a Minn-a-so-tah accent too! Not that I ever talk like that, eh?
Nancy
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The accent–honest–is still much more New York than Minnesota.
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I don’t really mind at all, I prefere to read posts when I visit the blogs. Emails are just good for telling you to go visit ;)
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Glad to know that. The needle on my guilt-o-meter just went down a few degrees out of the hot zone.
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Heheh, no need to feel guilty :) Have a nice weekend, and I hope your clicks will continue to rise and that you’ll keep your posts comming :)
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Ooogh! I missed a jolly old blogging debate! I’d say appease yourself here and not the blogging gods because a. it will focus you hopefully on making sure that your snippet is like the drums on an ‘Eastenders’ ending – (being British(?) or at the very least living in the UK you will hopefully get the reference) and b. it shows you your core audience.
No one (worth having around) is going to turn down fabulosity for an extra click of a mouse.
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I like that advice, especially since following it lets me think of myself as offering fabulosity.
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Ah, a Minnesotan…
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For forty long, frozen winters.
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Well you came to the right place to replicate that then! :)
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