Saturday, May 25, 2002

I exchanged some email with Arlene recently and I volunteered to be the Classmate's email contact for the reunion so she could spread out the workload a little more. I've been trying to collect email addresses lately and have gotten 20 good addresses from fellow class members. You can see them here. Please email me for the username and password to access it (you should have received it in a previous message). I did that to prevent them from getting discovered by spambots which are little automated programs that scour the Internet looking for new email addresses to send out unsolicited advertisements known as 'spam'. Classmates is a nice service, but you have to pay dues every year ($20 to $36) in order to access the features such as sending out 'hi' notes. I've found the 'Hi note' feature to generate only about a 20% response rate. I suspect that many of the addresses on the Classmates website are old and no longer work, so that's one of the reasons I'm trying to get a larger list of known good addresses assembled. I learned that regular mailing addresses age at the rate of 20% per year, meaning if you have a list that's a few years old, it's likely to have lots of out-of-date information in it. I suspect that email addresses age even faster. Next time, I'll talk about having an email address for life...

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