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Grex > Coop10 > #78: How Can We Get More Users Into the Conferences? | |
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remmers
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response 50 of 62:
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Feb 8 00:04 UTC 1998 |
What is msgs?
!man msgs
No manual entry for msgs.
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valerie
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response 51 of 62:
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Feb 8 15:31 UTC 1998 |
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valerie
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response 52 of 62:
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Feb 8 15:33 UTC 1998 |
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dpc
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response 53 of 62:
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Feb 8 16:26 UTC 1998 |
Nice plug, Valerie!
Ken, M-Net's program of advertising particular conference did
rather well. Each time we would pull from 20-50 new people into that
conference. Some conferences were re-invigorated; some not.
Grex could easily have 300-500 people who participate in our
conferences; if so, then based on my comparisons between Grex and
M-Net conferences, M-Net probably has double Grex', or 600-1000 folks
altogether.
Taking the mid-range for each (400 Grex; 800 M-Net), then
since Grex has 16000 users and M-Net around 5500, about 3% of Grexers
use the conferences and 15% of M-Netters. L-o-w for both. Maybe
M-Net's promotion of its conferences explains the difference,
maybe not.
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dang
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response 54 of 62:
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Feb 8 16:50 UTC 1998 |
(I'd guess the difference is outside "noteriety" and m-net's tiered access.
Grex made it onto some lists of places to get shell accounts and email, and
everyone gets the same access, so more people show up for shell accounts and
email.)
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jared
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response 55 of 62:
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Feb 8 19:28 UTC 1998 |
I've put the man page for the msgs program on grex in my home directory.
to view it do this:
!more /a/j/a/jared/msgs.1 or for those folks who use a 'real' pager,
!less /a/j/a/jared/msgs.1 it's standard software on FreeBSD, and
i know folks using it with sunos also, so it must be easy to port.
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jep
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response 56 of 62:
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Feb 12 15:10 UTC 1998 |
My ISP sends a message or two to each subscriber, telling people of
changes and improvements to the system. It's a small ISP based in
Adrian, but it must have at least a few thousand subscribers. The
messages are usually several screens long. I'm not annoyed by them at
all; I read every one. Grex could do this, if Grex has anything to tell
the users. I'll bet most people wouldn't mind, and a lot would
appreciate it.
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aruba
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response 57 of 62:
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Feb 12 16:24 UTC 1998 |
I certainly get the feeling that there are a lot of people using Grex for mail
who don't have a clue what we're all about.
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rcurl
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response 58 of 62:
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Feb 12 19:58 UTC 1998 |
Send them mail telling them. We will get more conferencers, and maybe
some new members. The motd is not motivating.
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jared
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response 59 of 62:
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Feb 13 04:48 UTC 1998 |
<insert a newuser welcome-to-grex e-mail here>
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valerie
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response 60 of 62:
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Feb 21 05:48 UTC 1998 |
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srw
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response 61 of 62:
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Mar 4 03:25 UTC 1998 |
I like that idea, too.
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lilmo
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response 62 of 62:
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May 11 23:13 UTC 1998 |
Re #60: s/each user/each new user/
:-)
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