Hi All
Just for the sake of having a balanced picture I'd like to report that all
my posts do reach MOPO, and as far as I can tell, I am receiving all of
MOPO's post as well, including Bruce's recent response to the 2SH
discussion.
Best, Zeev
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Hershenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2006 12:03 AM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Dropping MoPo membership
I see that my original message concerning dropping MoPo membership has
either been misunderstood, or I clearly did not make my thoughts clear!
I was NOT being "snide" in noting the dropping membership, but stating
that I thought it alarming that membership had dropped so much recently,
and a significant amount over the past year.
I attribute this to six factors:
1) The ratio of For Sale e-mails to "informative" e-mails has been
steadily growing. It seems that several days sometime go by without an
e-mail that contains substantive information about MOVIE POSTERS, and
those new members you all seem to want so badly likely value those e-mails
above all others (and also likely hate For Sale e-mails that are deceptive
as to what is being offered).
2) There clearly ARE a lot of technical problems with the way MoPo e-mails
are delivered. I have no idea if it is caused by spam filters from
Internet providers, but many e-mails TO MoPo clearly don't reach all the
members, and many e-mails FROM MoPo clearly don't reach all the members.
Add to this technical problems with people having their messages rejected
by the MoPo server, and people being accidentally un-subscribed, and it is
easy to see that these technical problems might be causing people to
un-subscribe for real.
3) There are of course the regular blow-ups between (and among) the usual
suspects, and many genteel people may not find these exchanges something
they want to look at (even if only to delete them) and that too might be
causing people to un-subscribe.
4) There are lots of "off-topic" discussions that might also turn off some
people. It is one thing to mention famous actors who died recently, but
going on and on about politics is unlikely (in my opinion) to win MoPo
many new members.
5) There are lots and lots of "old-timers" who used to post a lot, but who
now rarely post at all. Some who come to mind are Kirby, Freeman, Claude,
etc. Maybe they feel that just about everything worth discussing has been
hashed over before (and they may be right), but I for one greatly miss
these former frequent posters, and I feel MoPo would be greatly improved
by their return. Some people like Sean and David K used to post a lot with
VERY informative long e-mails, and now they mostly just pop up to make a
correction to what has been posted. I am glad for these posts, but miss
their older, longer ones!
6) I would think the other forums have siphoned off a lot of discussion
that would otherwise have been taking place on MoPo. Those forums use the
now standard online forums, where you can instantaneously post and see
replies, and you don't have to download bunches of e-mails, or wonder if
yours ever got through. I KNOW that MoPo has a website where the e-mails
are posted, but that ISN'T the same (for instance, yesterday I posted a
message about two-sheets, and the responses it received are on the
website, but I don't believe my original e-mail ever made it there).
So I personally think the talk of sending out a flyer to help MoPo is
"putting the cart before the horse"! FIRST fix what is wrong here, and
THEN try to sign up new members! It won't help if you somehow get a
hundred new people to join, if they all soon un-subscribe due to the above
factors.
This is NOT idle speculation on my part. Several times I have strongly
recommended MoPo in my e-mail club (formerly 3,000 members, now 2,000) and
each time it caused SOME new people to sign up, but before long the
membership was back to where it had been or lower.
I would guarantee that if you all pitch in and work to make MoPo a more
interesting place to be a member of, and if you all work to refrain from
angry exchanges that accomplish nothing, you will soon have LOTS more
members. And I don't think there would be any need of flyers at all (and
once MoPo becomes more like it once was, I gladly WILL again strongly
recommend it to my e-mail club).
To me, the question is, does MoPo exist so that a group of dealers can
e-mail each other (and get in fights on a regular basis), or is it a place
where sellers can reach buyers AND also answer their questions in a
friendly fashion? Is it the former, then nothing should change at all!
Finally, does anyone have a clue as to how many remaining MoPo members are
NOT dealers? One easy way to find out would be for those who AREN'T to
post one time stating that they aren't dealers (and perhaps suggest what
would make them enjoy MoPo more). I have a feeling the number of
non-dealer MoPo members is under 100, but that is a sheer guess.
Bruce
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