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
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