[Businessmtg] Questions about tracking numbers

[Lynne]

Hi Beverly,

There are over 900 people subscribed to ASP, but only about 130 people 
on average share each month. So there are a lot of people who are 
subscribed, but don't share regularly. That doesn't mean they don't read 
shares though! Or share occasionally. That is why I report all of those 
numbers separately.

If there are email addresses that are no longer working, i.e. the server 
gets a bounce notification when trying to send emails, then those email 
addresses are eventually unsubscribed by the server, after several 
notices. That is all an automatic process. When those non-functional 
email addresses are eventually unsubscribed by the server, I would 
include that in the # of unsubscribed members each month.

Steve, the List Administrator at the time, did purge a lot of inactive 
email addresses last year or the year before. The definition of inactive 
was to not respond to a series of emails saying that if you don't 
respond, your email address will be unsubscribed. I think that took out 
a couple thousand email addresses - largely due to the huge increase in 
members during the pandemic, although Steve can confirm the numbers. I 
believe it is up to the List Administrator how often to do these purges, 
but in practice they have been done every few years. Again, Steve can 
give some more background.

Hugs,
Lynne


On 2023-05-03 05:57, Sandie Parkker wrote:
> Hi Biz Pals.  Thank you for your reports.  The graphs are interesting.
> 
>  I am wondering if there are any email addresses that are inactive?  
> Are
> they counted in the totals and or if and how is this taken into
> consideration?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Beverly
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