Can someone please address this? (Please?)

[BSF]

OK Folks, The concert I went to last night went later than expected so I didn't get around to this until lunchtime today. I even brought my laptop to work with me so I could work on this.

I have the A's prepped to go and as soon as I reconnect to my home network, and my ISP, they will be sent out. I have already corrected one email address that I knew had changed in the last year. But I have to wonder how many other addresses are out there that need to be updated, and I wonder what the best way to go about this is. Maybe I won't receive too many NDRs and it won't be a concern?

In any event, the emails I am sending out have a subject of "EN World". Hopefully none of them will get blocked in SPAM filters, but I can't make any promises.

In any event, I just wanted to let you all know where I am at.

 

[Aaron L]

Thanks, BSF

 

[BSF]

Dang Aaron! You were fast. I was still getting ready to open a browser window to tell everyone that my first series of emails is out and I already have one response (Aaron_L) and one reject.

I think I might know who the reject is though so I am going to try alternate methods of communication and see if I am right.

 

[BSF]

OK, I sent out the last of the emails for my list a short time ago.

So far, I have 7 replies as well as 2 bad address rejects.

As I said, I think I know who one of the folks is and have tried to contact that person through alternate channels.

Etiquette-wise, would it be a gross violation to post the first portion of the other email address here in the hopes that the person will see it and notify us of an updated address?

 

[Dinkeldog]

I think what I'm going to do is ask people to contact me if they know they donated last year but their e-mail changed. What I'd need is their old e-mail, new e-mail, and physical addresses.

 

[BSF]

Sounds fair enough. I have one more NDR. Between replies and bad addresses, I have 1/3 of my portion cleared. Really I don't think that is too bad for just a bit over 12 hours since I sent out the first one. Hopefully more will come in today while I am at work.

How long do we want to wait on replies before I return the spreadsheet to you?

 

[BSF]

OK, I have received responses from roughly half the addresses I have emailed. I also have two bad email addresses and I found an alternate address for one of the bad addresses I had earlier. Given that we are an online community, it seems likely that the greatest flurry of responses will be within the first 24-36 hours. Hopefully I will be wrong and I will get a good success rate overall.

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

I sent out emails to my list of people, I've received several replies, and had about 5 immediate bounces from invalid email addresses. one of those I know the persons current address. Will see how things fall out over the next few days.

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

23 responses from the 50 emails I sent out, plus 5 bouncebacks. So BSF & I are about on the same track.

 

[BSF]

Yep, I haven't had a response for 12 hours now. All told, I think that gives me 24 replies and 2 bad addresses out of the 48 emails I sent out.

For those of you following the thread, be sure to check your SPAM filters and such. Both Cthulhu's Librarian and I clearly marked subject lines with EN World in it. And if you know folks that might have donated, please feel free to ask them if they have received an email.

I'm not giving up yet, not by any stretch of the imagination. But as I said, we are an online community so it seems likely that most of the responses will be turned around quickly. It would be great to have more than a 50% success rate.