Re: [UG-ADMINS] Mailing lists

[email protected] (Gordon Forsythe) Tue, 13 Mar 2018 06:43:03 -0700
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I pay for a mailman discussion list just for azPHP. 99.9% of the time the
only traffic on it is me saying the meeting is in a few days so I'm not
sure why I even bother with it.

Supposedly there are over 300 subscribers
The majority of our social traffic is on our facebook group.

On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 5:18 AM, Cal Evans <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi! :)
>
> I'm curious - and no, I'm not going to ask you to mail something to your
> mailing list for me - how often do you mail to your mailing list?
>
> Is your list  discussion list (meetup.com) or a broadcast list
> (mailchimp)?
>
> If your list is a discussion list, how many emails per week? (aprox)
>
> Aprox how many do you have on your list?
>
> Last one. What is the one thing you've done in the past year that has had
> the biggest impact on yuor list? (an email that you sent out that generated
> discussion, a rule you put in place, whatever)
>
> The reason I'm asking. Mailing lists are interesting to me. I know how
> often I mail to the ones I run, but I'm curious how my lists - broadcast
> and marketing - compare with UG lists. (I assume most are discussion lists
> and purposfully devoid of marketing)
>
> Thanks! And once again, than you to each and every one of you for all that
> you do for the PHP community.
>
> Cheers! :)
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