Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Last week I polled the group to get an idea of the level of activity. 
This was a random one week sample. It may be affected by the season 
but I would note that while it is Summer for some of you, it is Winter 
for those of us that are in the southern hemisphere!

--> 43 registered members responded.
A small number given the 733 member register. About 30 of these 
members cast their vote in the first 24 hours. These would be the 
"Ultra-Regulars" who are probably the main posters also.

--> An unknown number of registered members did not vote.
These guys & gals may have not voted out of some privacy fear, or 
something, or it could have been apathy. Perhaps they get the email 
digest and do not access the board online - hence no vote.

--> An unknown number of unregistered regulars read the board.
IMHO, this is the biggest unknown grouping. There could be many 
hundreds of readers that casually drop by from time to time.

--> Online v Email
Just over half of those that responded use the email feature. Based on 
this one would have to say that the email feature is very important 
for the registered members of this group. It should however be noted 
that unregistered users do not get email.

25% of those that voted use the email digest almost exclusively to 
participate rather than online access or a combination of both 
interfaces. 

<-- -->

So, nothing really conclusive here other than the possible 
quantification of the importance of the email interface to the 
regulars ie 53% of them use it.

I believe that we must figure out a way to quantify the unregistered 
and silent membership before we consider restricting access to the 
group.

Roger

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "ozteevan" <ozteevan@y...> wrote:
> I believe that we must figure out a way to quantify the 
unregistered 
> and silent membership before we consider restricting access to the 
> group.

For one thing, we can post a recurring message directed explicitly at 
the sidewalk traffic, warning them of impending restricted membership 
and urging them to join or to lose access to the messages. If, after 
a certain period of time, we don't notice a surge in membership, the 
casual visitors will not seem too significant. I think that we should 
always keep our eyes out for inviting people to join this group. 
Members should feel free to recommend it to others or to ask the 
moderators to send out invitations to people who have the requisite 
interests.

Ed