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Number   :  29
Date     :  2001-05-16
Author   :  james sadler
Subject  :  Re: Everybody, let us promote this group.
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--- Kan Yabumoto XXCOPY tech 
wrote:
> 
> Hi everybody:
> 
> Here's the history of this group's membership
> 
> Date Event 
> membershiop
>
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> 2001-05-09 Jim Witherspoon started the group 
> 4
> 2001-05-10 Kan Yabumoto joined 
> 5
> 2001-05-11 Kan's first mailing to 740 XXCOPY
> users done 8
> 2001-05-12 Membership count at 22:30 
> 33
> 2001-05-13 Membership count at 01:20 
> 37
> 2001-05-14 Membership count at 20:40 
> 61
> 2001-05-15 Membership count at 23:00 
> 68
> 2001-05-15 Kan's 2nd mailing to 13,000 DATMAN
> users done
> 
> The first round of mass email was for roughly 700
> people whose Email
> addresses were received from XXCOPY feedback
> entries.
> 
> The second round of mass emailing started a few days
> ago and it was just
> completed. The email addresses were collected at
> the DATAMAN.COM site
> (a XXCOPY Sister site). A total of about 13,000
> emails went out
> and over 7,500 of them bounced (about 60% of all
> Emails sent).
> Our mailbox is flooded by bounced emails. I imagine
> about 60% of the
> current membership came from the initial emailing to
> the XXCOPY users.
> The remaining people is assumed to be from the
> second round of Email
> (DATMAN site visitors). I would say, this round was
> not quite
> successful...
> 
> My initial wishful guestimate of about 100 members
> within a few days
> has been proven false. What I ended up with was a
> few people who were
> visibly disturbed by receiving the invitation
> (unsolicited email) to
> the XXCOPY discussion group. Already the rate of
> increase has tapered
> off. The next few days will bring in some new
> member from my second
> round of Emailing, but I don't expect many.
> 
> Everybody in this group should pay their due by
> either posting an
> article here (anything related to XXCOPY), and/or to
> recruit new
> members by posting invitation articles in various
> newsgroups.
> Since the nature of this discussion group is for
> mutual help as
> a users group, I don't believe it would be in
> violation of the
> "netiquettes" to send postings with an announcement
> of this
> discussion group.
> 
> At this point, if none of us in this groups steps up
> the promotion
> activities, this group won't succeed in expanding
> the membership.
> Without certain level of membership, I'm afraid the
> group will
> probably stagnate. I think this week is a crucial
> time for this group.
> 
> 
Rome was built one brick at a time. Hang in there
and at a certain point it will gather its own
momentum. But I would suggest thinking over a much
longer period of time.
Jim

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