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How Many MMDigest Subscribers?
By Bobby Clark

A couple of years ago someone put me on to MMD and I continue to
enjoy it daily.  The job you guys do is amazing and your knowledge
is unbelievable.  I look forward to receiving the MMD daily.

So often I wonder just how many subscribers there are across the
globe.  Perhaps others would be interested to know also.

Thanks.

Bobby Clark
Raleigh, North Carolina - It is sunny and 75 degrees here today.
Probably much colder in some other places.

 [ I'll ask Jody to give us report.  A few years ago we had about
 [ 2000 subscribers, as I recall.  -- Editor (Robbie)

 [ There are two subscriber databases.  There's a legacy database
 [ with entries that were made by hand by either myself or Robbie
 [ when someone sent us an e-mail message with a "subscribe" request.
 [ Staring in 2007, there has been software on the MMD website which
 [ allows users to make their own entries in a an interactively
 [ maintained database by registering directly on the website.
 [
 [ Yesterday's Digest was sent to 2680 subscribers.  1143 of those
 [ subscribers are in the old, editor maintained database. The remaining
 [ 1537 subscribers are in the new, do-it-yourself database.  Since
 [ that database has no entries in it older than 2007, the readership
 [ has grown quite a bit in the last 4 years.
 [
 [ Subscribers are from all over the globe, and from many ISPs. I
 [ alogize for the size of the following report, but Robbie and I
 [ think its really intersting.  Please note that many non-US
 [ subscribers have e-mail addresses with US registered domains,
 [ so you can't tell exactly how many people are outside the US, but
 [ there are lots!
 [
 [ Subscribers by ISP
 [   323 aol.com
 [   299 yahoo.com
 [   165 hotmail.com
 [   140 gmail.com
 [   112 comcast.net
 [    78 verizon.net
 [    78 sbcglobal.net
 [    57 msn.com
 [    45 att.net
 [    37 cox.net
 [    29 earthlink.net
 [    29 bellsouth.net
 [    25 juno.com
 [    21 charter.net
 [    20 btinternet.com
 [    16 frontiernet.net
 [    15 roadrunner.com
 [    14 yahoo.co.uk
 [    14 bigpond.com
 [    13 shaw.ca
 [    13 pacbell.net
 [    12 windstream.net
 [    12 optonline.net
 [    10 mac.com
 [    many others with less than 10 subscribers per domain.
 [
 [
 [ Subscribers by top level domain
 [  1516 com (Mostly US)
 [   715 net (Mostly US)
 [    77 uk  (UK)
 [    57 au  (Australia)
 [    49 edu (Mostly US)
 [    36 de  Germany
 [    36 ca  Canada
 [    32 nl  Netherlands
 [    29 fr  France
 [    27 org Mostly US
 [    17 be  Belgium
 [    16 nz  New Zeland
 [    11 it  Italy
 [     7 se  Sweden
 [     5 jp  Mapan
 [     4 ch  Switzerland
 [     3 no  Norway
 [     3 mil US
 [     3 il  Israel
 [     3 gov US
 [     3 ar  Argentina
 [     2 sg, 2 id, 2 hu, 2 gr, 2 es, 2 br, 2 at, 1 za, 1 us, 1 tw, 1 sk, 1 ru,
 [     1 pl, 1 nu, 1 name, 1 mx, 1 info, 1 hr, 1 eu, 1 dk, 1 cz, 1 cn, 1 bz
 [
 [ - - -
 [
 [ The new self registration system allows subscribers that are
 [ logged in to update their own e-mail address and to turn the Digest
 [ off temporarily for vacation periods.  These features aren't used
 [ as frequently as we hoped.
 [
 [ Good "netiquette" requires that a self-registration system send a
 [ confirmation e-mail containing a "confirmation URL" so that it can
 [ be determined that the e-mail address being added was requested by
 [ it's owner and not a 3rd party such as a spammer.  We've had a lot
 [ of problems with unconfirmed registrations.  Perhaps a few are from
 [ registrations fraudulently submitted by 3rd parties. Our best guess
 [ is that virtually all of them are because our confirmation messages
 [ getting marked as SPAM.
 [
 [ At this time there are an additional 580 unconfirmed registrations
 [ in the automated database!    If your registration is one of these
 [ unconfirmed registrations (you'd probably be reading this on the web,
 [ not in your inbox), please send us an e-mail and let us know you
 [ had a problem!  Use rollreq-1101@mmdigest.com.geentroep [delete .geentroep]
 [
 [ So, the Digest's readership has grown a lot in the last few years.
 [ My thanks to everyone who participates in the Digest -- readers,
 [ writers, the editors, and our financial contributors!   --Jody 


(Message sent Sun 27 Feb 2011, 18:43:57 GMT, from time zone GMT-0500.)

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