JR I have purged my e-mail some three or four times when it gets over 3,000, and each time it drops down to around 2,000. I see no point to having members who never participate and have the most casual interest in posters.
Since I have no need to purge my club list it is clear I have no fixation on numbers. It was just something about seeing a number in the "300s" that made me take notice. I like MoPo the best of the online groups I am aware of, and hope it can gain some members. Any ideas on how that can happen? Conversely, maybe Scott could REQUIRE all members to post a lot, and if they don't, kick them off. That should get the list down to a couple of dozen members in no time. Bruce At 05:31 PM 9/3/2006, you wrote: >Bruce... Bruce... Bruce... > >How can you ask this... you, whose vaunted email club just went from some 3500 >members to under 2000 in just a matter of weeks? tsk...tsk... > >We can speculate, but it's most likely simply people dropping off who never >participated much if at all. The decline has not been that sudden... it's been >going on for about a year now. As for 10 or 15 dropping out ion the past week >or so... I suppose there may be some who were put off by the recent flurry of >off-topic threads, which generate a lot of extra messages going into people's >mailboxes that may not be welcome if the receiver is primarily interested in >on-topic. There may be a few others who found that their baiting and ranting >doesn't get the same kind of reaction here that they get elsewhere and have >unsubscribed in a huff. But we never know unless someone sends us a good-bye >and thanks for all the fish message when they unsubscribe. > >Do the specific numbers matter? > >-- JR > > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Bruce Hershenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2006 19:17 >Subject: [MOPO] Is MoPo membership on a decline? > > >> I just sent a message to MoPo about my latest auctions, and the >> confirmation e-mail says, "Your message has been successfully >> distributed to the MoPo-L list (392 recipients)." >> >> Now I DO remember that Scott said that the above number does not >> reflect all the MoPo members, but I looked back at my last MoPo >> confirmation e-mail (from just 8/29, less than a week ago) and it >> says "Your message has been successfully distributed to the MoPo-L >> list (407 recipients)." >> >> Doesn't that surely mean that MoPo "lost" 15 members this week? And >> wasn't the "confirmation e-mail" number like 425 just a month ago? >> >> What's the story? >> >> Bruce >> >> Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com >> ___________________________________________________________________ >> How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List >> >> Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L >> >> The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. >> >> >> Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
