Mike,

You walk a dangerous line doing that, however. I have my subscription
status as "No Email", but I still get every message that goes through
gthomas because of bloglines RSS reader. Imagine if you came across my
"No Email" status and deleted my subscription, and upon seeing this or
another message went to post and found out that I couldn't!

Chris Weimer
University of Memphis

--- In gthomas@yahoogroups.com, "Michael Grondin" <mwgrondin@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Roger,
>
> Yahoogroups allows four levels of contact between a group and a
> subscriber: "individual emails", "daily digest", "special notices", or
> "no email". The former two I would count as relatively interested
> members, the latter two as relatively uninterested - though there are
> exceptions like yourself. Judging from my own experience, most folks
> are probably subscribed to a lot of groups, get email from a few of
them,
> check a few others from time to time, but (if they're like me) still
belong
> to
> many groups that they no longer pay much attention to. (BTW, I don't
know
> what "special notices" are, or to whom they go.)
>
> When I began contacting "relatively uninterested" subscribers, they
> were 48% of our membership. Because they don't normally receive
> any email beyond the original group welcome, most of the addresses
> had been unverified for a long time, and it turned out that about twenty
> of them (as I recall off the top of my head) were dead addresses.
> These were deleted (I don't think any other group has ever done this),
> with the result that these types of subscribers dropped to around 40%.
> I received only two responses - your own and one other person. Another
> couple of folks unsubscribed - as I suggested they do if they were no
> longer interested in the list. Overall though, the response was markedly
> underwhelming, given a hundred or so messages sent out.
>
> As to this thread, I'm pleased to note that the number of responses on
> our list are about the same as appeared on Crosstalk - both
substantially
> higher than those on John-Lit.
>
> Mike Grondin
>
> > Hi Mike,
> >
> > I was one of the individuals on your "inactive" e-mail broadcast. I
> > was surprised as I faithfully have read every message off the home
> > page since subscribing to the list over a year ago. I even replied
> > to your "broadcast e-mail to stimulate interest message" to your off
> > line e-mail address with information. I wonder if you have several e-
> > mail addresses flagged as spam or even blocked. Someone else here
> > recently had that experience too so I hope you have checked that out.
> >
> > Have fun in Minneapolis.
> >
> > Roger Mott
> > Waterloo, Iowa
>