Re: [AGA SC] Membership Committee Initiatives

[Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>]

We also do this! :)  Nobody ever gets deleted from the database, just
deactivated.  I think Cheryl also tries to find an existing entry for
people even after they've been deactivated a while.  This is a major
departure from the old style of bookkeeping which removed people after 
they lapsed.

  - Erik

On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, S. Hieber wrote:

> Are we hip or what ? :-)  
> 
> I'll add:  Even if someone's membership expires, we should
> keep them on "the list" (as expired) for say, 3 years, in
> case they come back.  Maybe a signif num drop out a year or
> two and come back.  If they come back after 3 years (or 5?)
> itls like they're a new person, but that's probably ture in
> more ways than one. ;-)
> 
> sh
> --- Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, S. Hieber wrote:
> > 
> > > We might be doing that, hanging around 800-900 or we
> > might
> > > be replacing more or less. I don't think we know the
> > > composition of memberships. We don't know how long each
> > > member has been a member, do we? Only when their last
> > > membership started.
> > 
> > We have been recording that sort of information since we
> > moved to the 
> > online database.  So it'll probably start becoming useful
> > soon.  We don't 
> > have any data on new members earlier than January 2002.
> >
> 
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