Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2015 22:53:23 -0700
Reply-To: "Mudd \"Not Jack\" Sparrow" <rummaging@YAHOO.COM>
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From: "Mudd \"Not Jack\" Sparrow" <rummaging@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: Is anybody still on this list?
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Well. 100 messages a day can be a bit much. I left the list a few years back because I was spending too much time on it.
And I could never keep up.
Now that I have it on my iPhone, using an email account set aside for lists, I really like it.
But the website looks dormant, so of course it's not attracting members.
You don't need to go overboard. There are plenty of links here for seeings lots of stuff elsewhere. But Vanagon.com should be simply a splash page for joining the list.
Doing more than that is overreaching. Like when you would look at Skype, and about the only thing the page was pushing, was to sign up and why. And maybe how.
Like I have an AOL account but only for flyers. So if a business sends me a flyer to my Outlook account, where I don't want it, then with my iPhone,0 I drag and drop the flyer from my Outlook account to my AOL account.
Only limitation is I can't drag things over to Outlook account. The otter providers don't have this limitation.
While I delete text messages, I really don't delete much email, since the imap servers hold email for me, and I can always choose whether to pull down more of my history.
So the splash page could suggest how to set up your accounts, and recommend [for iPhone users] iCloud for stuff from or pertaining to Apple, Outlook for business correspondence, AOL for flyers from when businesses that ask for your email address when you buy something in person, Gmail for anonymous correspondence, and Yahoo for list and digest traffic.
If I had I thought or known of this scheme in the past, and also had an iPhone (before they were created), I would never have had to leave the list, and the list experience would have been deeper, richer, better.
This is a trick I think people really don't know. Because they started using email long before iPhones came out.
They might try to have one account and stick everything in little folder structures they create. Oh.my.god, what a pointless nightmare that is. I'm so glad I'm not in that ineffectual stage anymore.
Facebook is like US Magazine. Too often superficial and not terribly useful if you're trying to learn something in depth on your vanagon.
Great when you treat it like Life Magazine. With pictures
So Vanagon.com could have a really nice Facebook page with gorgeous pictures, that serves as a link to Vanagon.com that acts as a splash page for signing up for the List.
Email isn't going away. People just need to discover a better way to make use of it, and with this approach, I feel like I've finally got a useable and likable approach where I can look at the Inbox for All five accounts, or I can look at the Inbox for just one account to better focus.
> On Mar 14, 2015, at 8:00 PM, Jeff Palmer <jpalmer@MYMTS.NET> wrote:
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> List traffic has gone from over 100 messages a day, to the single digits. At this rate the list is basically going to become an archive I’m sorry to say.
