Tony Firshman wrote:
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 at 18:34:01, wrote:
(ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Does anyone have any indication of the current QL market??
I guess we can only base this on the readership of QL Today and the
Quanta membership, although possibly Tony may have a better idea.
My emailing list is now about 450 - but maybe 50 duplicate entries (I
wish people would let me know - a very few do!) plus one notable
well-known person who does not want to receive 'spam'
There are an additional 300 or so without email addresses.
so it looks like 700 worldwide.
Most users are still in the UK of course.
There are still people using their QLs who have no idea that anyone else
is around. Often when they find the internet, they are staggered to
find such an active electronic scene.
The snailmail list (those without email addresses on file) definitely
excludes some active QLers.
It was based on returns from the QL2000 mailing where we sent out about
2000 postcards asking for snail/email addresses.
We had a pitifully poor response, and it really was a waste of time and
money.
I then excluded everyone who hadn't replied.
I then went manually through my 6000 entry database and re-enabled
everyone I knew. It amounted to a very large number - maybe five times
the number who returned postcards, and a very large number of very well
known people.
The postcard mailing was one of the most depressing things we have done.
At the end of it, I felt that the QL scene deserved to die if the people
left could not even be bothered to let us know.
People removed from the active QL list on my database still keep popping
up again after all this time.
Apathy can be a real killer.
If _you_ want the QL scene to survive, then please let me know when you
change email (especially) or snail address.
... or your email address if you have never received any of our trader
'spam' (quoting that anonymous QLer again)
Moan over - ah I do feel better (8-)#
You can add me to your database.
François Van Emelen
