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Filipe
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Acording to http://boincstats.com/en/stats/5/project/detail/user 90% of einstein users are not active.

What about sending an e-mail to everyone (the kind of Seti does once a year) to reminding people of the project searches, discoverys already made possible by this projects, and plans/perspective for the future?

It has the potencial to motivate some of this non-active users back to the project, and increase dramatically the computational power available.

Bernd Machenschalk
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Yep, we're working on that.

We're currently stuck with the regulations and requirements of the involved organizations that are mainly there to prevent intentional spamming and unintentional virus mailings from university (and MPG) accounts.

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Stranger7777
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What if you make a policy to

What if you make a policy to send no more messages per day than it is allowed by current regulations?

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RE: What if you make a

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What if you make a policy to send no more messages per day than it is allowed by current regulations?

It would take about four years to send a newsletter that we currently plan to send out every 3-4 months.

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Surely by ticking the ' is it

Surely by ticking the ' is it ok for thre project to e mail you etc. ' in preferences I have already given my explicit consent for the project to send me an e mail ?

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RE: Surely by ticking the '

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Surely by ticking the ' is it ok for thre project to e mail you etc. ' in preferences I have already given my explicit consent for the project to send me an e mail ?


The spam-blocking organizations don't know the user has ticked it. To them, if it looks like spam, it's spam.

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DanNeely
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And, more importantly, for a

And, more importantly, for a lot of users, it's much easier to click "this is spam" in their webmail than to try to figure out how to unsubscribe to something they don't want. If it's the first contact they've had with an organization in years, the tendency to assume spam is going to be even higher than normal.

mikey
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RE: Yep, we're working on

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Yep, we're working on that.

We're currently stuck with the regulations and requirements of the involved organizations that are mainly there to prevent intentional spamming and unintentional virus mailings from university (and MPG) accounts.

BM

Couldn't you also send a quick not to the Notices tab in Boinc Manager with a link to your newsletter? I now I get Notices from projects I still have in my Projects tab all the time, even if I have them suspended. Is there a way to send a message out to those that don't have Einstein listed but used to crunch for Einstein?

You could do it as a promotional thing for some new goal you have, ie 'come back to Einstein and help us find X' for example.

Stranger7777
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RE: It would take about

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It would take about four years to send a newsletter that we currently plan to send out every 3-4 months.


You don't have to send this batch once for all inactive users (many of them are already forgot about that) but continuously day by day. Let it instead work as a demon for years without excessive load on mail servers and without suspicions from regulators.

noderaser
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I get email notices from SETI

I get email notices from SETI every now and then and haven't crunched for them in years, so I assume this is an issue with your organization and its locality?

mikey
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RE: RE: It would take

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It would take about four years to send a newsletter that we currently plan to send out every 3-4 months.

You don't have to send this batch once for all inactive users (many of them are already forgot about that) but continuously day by day. Let it instead work as a demon for years without excessive load on mail servers and without suspicions from regulators.

As long as that doesn't mean I get emails EVERY DAY saying 'come back'! THAT would get annoying and counter productive I think.

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