Hi All, It's been long since I sent message to the group. I am one of those who check group emails once a week, but I am active in reading the subjects but not responding to any topics.
So from my openion, the group should have two sub groups. 1) Those who actively involve in giving suggestions and participating in everyday activities of the group. 2). Those who may not be able to spend time in reading or participating in group posts everyday, but they are willing to contribute financially. Group can send only emails about the initiatives of the group once a week or case by case basis instead of reading the entire thread of each and every post. Others who are not responding at all can be deleted, but sometimes few people will forward important emails or at least spread the word about the group which always helps. So may be once in every six months send a reminder emails about the group to find those who want to unsubscribe because of whatever their personal reason is. Good luck. Kumar. --- In [email protected], harinath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just few thoughts! > > 1. Dormant users are not harmful. No way they hurt group or group > activities. > 2. some times some people are active. only few people are active all the > time. Dormant people might be active some time or the other. > But yes, certain users might be discarding the group mails/activiites > intentionally, they might have joined group in a momentous enthu. so we > might need to have a mechanism to purge users who do not want to be with the > group. > 3. We might be able to use this time(thought process for forming rules and > regulations) for better activities > > right now I am working on RTI Alone. there are many other things that I > always wanted to do but some how not able to manage. > > > > > On 5/7/08, Prasanthi Uppalapati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Thanks to Divya for suggesting about this on going discussion. I didn't > > check group mails yesterday. Based on her tone, I understood how serious > > the topic became. > > > > Let me answer all the questions. > > > > 1. Membership Fee > > > > ---- There can be objection if we use it for administrative purpose or for > > any reason other than what we intend for. We will be using it strictly for > > causes only. > > > > All the administrative expenses are borne by special fund raising among > > group members. Based on what we have been doing it is obvious that we do not > > spend money lavishly. > > > > The cost of Visiting cards, T-Shirts are borne by individual members only. > > > > Only expenditure on Administration purpose would be the Receipt books, > > Letter pad and may be files. That we will bear. > > > > --- This is to ensure all members strictly adhere to the group. 100 rs. a > > month is not a big amount by any means. > > > > --- Those who want to pay only on case basis also can pay the membership > > fee giving a priority for the causes. This option we can give. > > > > 2. Losing interested members > > > > ---- We will definitely send a detailed mail to all the members about the > > compulsion to do so and we give our contact numbers and e-mail ids to > > approach us whenever they see the mail. We will keep sending the update > > once a month for all the members who cannot check mails. > > > > No matter how busy people are, if they are seriously interested, they can > > be in touch with us once a month. We are not making any unreasonable > > demands. > > > > 3. Deleting members > > > > Yes. As Divya mailed we have been doing it at regular intervals. We keep > > on deleting inactive members and also the members who keep their > > subscription status as 'No Email'. The reason being ours is a public group > > and anyone can see all the mails. We gave many options of letting us know > > when they will be busy, when they will be active. > > > > 4. Activities > > > > I may be harsh in this statement but over a period it has been more talk > > but less work. People say umpteen number of things and come up with > > different objections. But no interest in actual field work. Any long > > standing member can understand that ours is the most democratic group and we > > always supported the initiatives of the members. > > > > If we propose something, some members say they do not like it. When we ask > > them to come up with their own ideas and do whatever interests them and take > > the lead, there is an absolute silence. > > > > I know that this is a hard decision but we want people who are really > > interested to spare time on field specially in Hyd, Blr, Chennai and Nlr. US > > members are always the active supporters and major contributors in all ways. > > In them also we want to keep only active members in the list. Others we will > > send monthly updates. > > > > I request everyone to take this as a positive sign to become active and > > revive the spirits. We will consider the members who respond to this thread > > are interested by default and will add them. For others it is only to > > rejoin. > > > > Please try to understand and co-operate with us. Definitely we will uphold > > our values and live up to the expectations of our group. > > > > > > > > > > -- > Regards... > Harinath > http://harinath.in > "Beauty is that which attracts your soul, and that which loves to give and > not to receive" >
