Re: [Repeater-Builder] Statistics
Mike Morris WA6ILQ wrote: And as of today we have 3402 members Mike WA6ILQ Wow...pretty impressive! You guys all deserve a lot of congrats for putting this together and making it the resource it is! I remember Kevin making comments about how the list just passed 500, 800, then 1000...my my... -- Jim Barbour WD8CHL
Re: [Repeater-Builder] Statistics
Mike Morris WA6ILQ wrote: Recently I did some research on the membership statistics for this group. Here's some interesting info: snip 1,679 are on No Email - i.e. they read the mail via the YahooGroups web site and they have locked themselves out of special notices. That last tidbit is very surprising to me. I would have thought that maybe 1/10 that many would go to the hassle of reading the mail through a web browser. I've always wondered about that myself. Reading a yahoo (or even a true 'usenet' group) via a web site is soo slww, and you have no way of knowing which msgs you've read until you actually open the msg (or can remember by looking at the subject and author...) 1694 are in Fully Featured mode, the rest are either in Default or Traditional mode. The Default mode ones haven't made a choice yet. Yahoo may make one for them at some point. Not sure what you mean by that...??? -- Jim Barbour WD8CHL
Re: [Repeater-Builder] Statistics
At 08:48 AM 02/19/07, Jim Barbour WD8CHL wrote: Mike Morris WA6ILQ wrote: Recently I did some research on the membership statistics for this group. Here's some interesting info: snip 275 are in Special Notices mode - i.e. they read the mail via the YahooGroups web site, and if the owner or moderators send out a special notice they will get it in their normal email (note that this feature is almost never used here, in fact I can't remember the last time it was used). 1,679 are on No Email - i.e. they read the mail via the YahooGroups web site and they have locked themselves out of special notices. That last tidbit is very surprising to me. I would have thought that maybe 1/10 that many would go to the hassle of reading the mail through a web browser. I've always wondered about that myself. Reading a yahoo (or even a true 'usenet' group) via a web site is soo slww, and you have no way of knowing which msgs you've read until you actually open the msg (or can remember by looking at the subject and author...) Yep. And 1,954 folks that do that. Personally I have the Group send mine to a Yahoo mail account that I drain with a proxy program that runs on my machine in the background - my POP mail reader thinks the proxy program is a POP server, but the proxy program actually goes out and diddles the Yahoo web mail server as if I was reading (and deleting) each message... proxies are cheaper than paying Yahoo for POP access. 1694 are in Fully Featured mode, the rest are either in Default or Traditional mode. The Default mode ones haven't made a choice yet. Yahoo may make one for them at some point. Not sure what you mean by that...??? The web side (i.e. user interface) of Yahoogroups can be in one of two modes, new and old. YahooGgroups would prefer that you use the new Fully Featured mode (hence the Default name) but still support the old (Traditional) mode. Looking at the data again, 1694 have chosen the new mode, 626 have actively chosen the old mode, and 1081 have not made a choice. The 1081 may get a rude surprise some day when Yahoo makes a choice for them. BTW the group was created on Feb 13 1999 and by 1-2000 the group had 163 members. By 1-2001 it had 350 members. By 1-2002 it had 653 members. By 1-2003 it had 989 members. By 1-2004 it had 1450 members. By 1-2005 it had 1896 members. By 1-2006 it had 2519 members. By the first of this year it had 3288 members. And as of today we have 3402 members Mike WA6ILQ
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This says a lot, not only for the list itself, but the people who populate it. There is a **wealth** of information here, which I like to consume on a regular basis. This is one of the lists that I actually get individual messages from - simply because I LIKE to read the material, and I actually LEARN from the posts. (When I feel I have a little information of worth, I contribute also...) Congratulations to Mike and all who own/administer this group. 3400 members says a LOT about your efforts!! 73 de Mark - N9WYS -Original Message- From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com On Behalf Of Mike Morris WA6ILQ (snip) BTW the group was created on Feb 13 1999 and by 1-2000 the group had 163 members. By 1-2001 it had 350 members. By 1-2002 it had 653 members. By 1-2003 it had 989 members. By 1-2004 it had 1450 members. By 1-2005 it had 1896 members. By 1-2006 it had 2519 members. By the first of this year it had 3288 members. And as of today we have 3402 members Mike WA6ILQ Yahoo! Groups Links
Re: [Repeater-Builder] Statistics
BTW the group was created on Feb 13 1999 Happy belated 8th birthday! Wow, has it really been that long? Remember eGroups, and OneList? Those are the other folks that run the mail servers before Yahoo! bought them out. Thanks everyone for a popular - productive list. Kevin Custer List Owner
Re: [Repeater-Builder] Statistics
At 06:01 PM 02/19/07, you wrote: BTW the group was created on Feb 13 1999 Happy belated 8th birthday! Wow, has it really been that long? Remember eGroups, and OneList? Those are the other folks that run the mail servers before Yahoo! bought them out. Thanks everyone for a popular - productive list. Kevin Custer List Owner And what I find really interesting is the group has over 3,400 members despite having done next to NO promotion - except for one plug in the QST magazine, the growth is all word of mouth. Mike WA6ILQ
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When you have a good thing, people will find out about it. When you have a GREAT thing, a LOT of people fill find out about it. Thanks for you hard work Kevin. Johnny Mike Morris WA6ILQ wrote: At 06:01 PM 02/19/07, you wrote: BTW the group was created on Feb 13 1999 Happy belated 8th birthday! Wow, has it really been that long? Remember eGroups, and OneList? Those are the other folks that run the mail servers before Yahoo! bought them out. Thanks everyone for a popular - productive list. Kevin Custer List Owner And what I find really interesting is the group has over 3,400 members despite having done next to NO promotion - except for one plug in the QST magazine, the growth is all word of mouth. Mike WA6ILQ Yahoo! Groups Links
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Yep. Joe M. (List member #5 as I recall) Kevin Custer wrote: Remember eGroups, and OneList? Those are the other folks that run the mail servers before Yahoo! bought them out.
RE: [Repeater-Builder] Statistics
And it's REALLY annoying when a Yahoo email account HARD BOUNCES a YhaooGroups email message!!! I have a POP proxy draining my Yahoo email accounts , and my Gmail accounts set up fro direct POP access, and that along with a couple of other POP boxes all feeding into my copy of Eudora Pro. I have never been able to get Yahoo to give me a cogent answer to how one Yahoo server can bounce a message from another one. Mike At 10:21 PM 02/15/07, you wrote: I prefer the traditional mode of receiving e-mails from my various Yahoo Groups. All that extra garbage they add on does nothing for me, other than grate on my nerves... ;-) I just wish there was a way to KEEP my settings after an e-mail address bounce occurs. Seems that I get them every so often, and with having subscriptions to over 40 groups, it's a real PITA to go in and reset each one after un-bouncing my address. Mark - N9WYS -Original Message- From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com On Behalf Of Mike Morris WA6ILQ Recently I did some research on the membership statistics for this group. Here's some interesting info: We have 3,393 members. 556 are in Daily Digest mode. 883 are in Individual Emails mode 275 are in Special Notices mode - i.e. they read the mail via the YahooGroups web site, and if the owner or moderators send out a special notice they will get it in their normal email (note that this feature is almost never used here, in fact I can't remember the last time it was used). 1,679 are on No Email - i.e. they read the mail via the YahooGroups web site and they have locked themselves out of special notices. That last tidbit is very surprising to me. I would have thought that maybe 1/10 that many would go to the hassle of reading the mail through a web browser. 1694 are in Fully Featured mode, the rest are either in Default or Traditional mode. The Default mode ones haven't made a choice yet. Yahoo may make one for them at some point. The above is from a quick look at the Excel spreadsheet. I'm not a guru in Excel number crunching, and I didn't have a reason to go poking around any further. Mike WA6ILQ Yahoo! Groups Links
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I prefer the traditional mode of receiving e-mails from my various Yahoo Groups. All that extra garbage they add on does nothing for me, other than grate on my nerves... ;-) I just wish there was a way to KEEP my settings after an e-mail address bounce occurs. Seems that I get them every so often, and with having subscriptions to over 40 groups, it's a real PITA to go in and reset each one after un-bouncing my address. Mark - N9WYS -Original Message- From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com On Behalf Of Mike Morris WA6ILQ Recently I did some research on the membership statistics for this group. Here's some interesting info: We have 3,393 members. 556 are in Daily Digest mode. 883 are in Individual Emails mode 275 are in Special Notices mode - i.e. they read the mail via the YahooGroups web site, and if the owner or moderators send out a special notice they will get it in their normal email (note that this feature is almost never used here, in fact I can't remember the last time it was used). 1,679 are on No Email - i.e. they read the mail via the YahooGroups web site and they have locked themselves out of special notices. That last tidbit is very surprising to me. I would have thought that maybe 1/10 that many would go to the hassle of reading the mail through a web browser. 1694 are in Fully Featured mode, the rest are either in Default or Traditional mode. The Default mode ones haven't made a choice yet. Yahoo may make one for them at some point. The above is from a quick look at the Excel spreadsheet. I'm not a guru in Excel number crunching, and I didn't have a reason to go poking around any further. Mike WA6ILQ
