so we’re embroiled in this battle to convince the school board that they don’t understand our community and how closing the building will do more damage to the local business community, the neighbors, etc. than they understand.
We’re using all the tools at our disposal to make this happen: we’re using mailing lists, we have a Drupal community server, you name it.
Does 16 emails over a mailing list in 2 days seem like a lot? How about 139 in a month (granted 135 of those came in a 10 day span)?
For some reason, that’s considered just a helluvalot of email. People are already checking out and not reading it all. And this doesn’t count people with overly aggressive spam filters (I’m looking in your direction, MSN.com) who don’t see any of it and then wonder why they’re out of the loop.
For my part, I have been posting stuff on the drupal server, so people can go there when they have time or inclination, rather than bombard people with email. I will try to limit emails to once a day (or less), if possible.
Sadly, if I mention filters as a way of managing info glut, I get the blank stare. I wish filter syntax was portable, so that when someone joined a community or mailing list, they could install a filter automagically. I can see wanting to put stuff aside for later, but if it just sits in the inbox, it just sinks lower and lower and eventually falls off the bottom of the list.
<sigh>