Re: [UG-ADMINS] Mailing lists

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Thank you to all that have replied. It's helping me get an idea for how UGs
use mailing lists.

Also, I hope it is sparking some ideas among those who are not using their
mailing lists to their full advantage.

Cheers! :)
=C=

On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 4:48 PM, Bobby Cahill <[email protected]> wrote:

> At BostonPHP we are very anti-spam when it comes to email, so we use the
> meetup mailing list, but it's usually only used by the organizers and we
> rarely approve emails sent by users.  For discussions, members are
> encouraged to use the discussion forums.
>
> We currently have 3,110 members on the mailing list.
>
> As for frequency, we try to limit it to ~1 email per month (recently it's
> been much lower, but we're hopefully going to change that soon)
>
> Usually the emails are for BostonPHP related announcements and we try to
> include announcements about community events in those emails, rather than
> send them out separately.
>
> We do our best to filter out requests that sound like spam or marketing or
> are in some way not in the best interest of our members.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
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> Bobby
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2018, 08:19 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! :)
>> =C=
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