Re: [AGA-mcm] new year, new archive password, etc

[Cheryl Rogers <cheryl@rightstuffwebsites.com>]

Erik Olson wrote:
> The archives for this list (http://lists.thekrib.com/aga-mcm)
> are now accessed with the username "aga-mcm" and the password "sfhope"

Maybe that should be sfhopepraybegmakesacrifices  :-)

> Just part of the New Years' purge.  I don't think most people knew about 
> the archives; I *know* the only person who will bother to look through 
> them other than me is Scott. :)

Hah! I poked through them. Or was that the sc list? Can't remember....

> In looking at the pitiful 61 messages posted between February 2002 and 
> August 2004 (compared to, say the 481 messages posted last November)...
>
> Something for Karen and Cheryl to muse over:
> http://lists.thekrib.com/aga-mcm/0206/msg00000.html
>
> then go to http://www.aquatic-gardeners.org/TAGIndex/issues.html look at 
> the top three rows and smile.

We rock!

> Something I noticed in checking the database... last summer we sent 881 
> people the August issue of TAG, a new record.  It's back down to 850 
> now, but if you compare 2004's numbers for each issue with 2003's, each 
> number is significantly better.  A lot of this is coming from foreign 
> members, which have steadily grown from 116 at the start of 2003, to 226 
> now.  (We should probably revisit whether we're charging appropriately.)

You know, you would have heard this from the Membership Chair in November 
had she not been hypertensive.

To expand on Erik's observations, I have further observed that we are NOT 
increasing our membership in English-speaking countries. That is remaining 
about the same. Our membership has increased in non-English speaking countries!

Cheryl
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