Morning guys

 

I would like to propose we change the areas in our “Meetings and events” forum. Currently we have 13 sub forums (never a good number in motorsports) and I would like to see this changed to 7 forums (National, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, North, Midlands, South).

 

After a recent roll call in the current south coast forum I got 4 replies. That’s terrible and not worth the time trying to organise an event. If we had larger areas more people might check in and see what’s going on. Localised meets could still be arranged in these larger forums so there’s no lose there.

 

I’m not suggesting this is going to make a huge difference but it MIGHT help get more people together.

 

There’s more work needed but the meetings and events forums need to be more inclusive before I (and other REOs) start work on trying to re-engage absent members back into the forum community.

 

What do you guys think?

 

Cheers,

Chris.

Is this one better ?

 

Yes, if nothing else than it shows NI/Ireland which will make Gary happy. Just needs the new region names overlaid on it.

ok,

 

My Subscription to Mail Chimp is currently at 2500 subscriptions, this sets me back $35 a month as a business expense.

 

In order to send this mailshot via MailChimp i would need to increase my subscription to cover 12,000 subscribers at a cost of $130 a month.

 

We also cant just send an email via vBulletin as that also goes through my servers and goes against my usage policies and could mark my server as a spammer.

 

So unfortunately its not something i can do.

 

There is currently 9745 email addresses in the database minus the banned and obvious spam addresses i have filtered.

 

If i remove the dormant accounts that then drops down to 1342 email addresses.

Can’t you just email the subscribed members?

I thought you said you just pulled that map from google !

 

As i was only trying to get a better picture that included all regions.

 

Oh, ok mate. :yes: