{"id":763,"date":"2009-10-16T10:39:49","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T08:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=763"},"modified":"2009-10-16T10:39:49","modified_gmt":"2009-10-16T08:39:49","slug":"mailing-lists-continue-to-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=763","title":{"rendered":"Mailing lists continue to fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things that is not widely known is that unless you constantly recruit new members to your mailing lists, over time they will gradually begin to shrink.\u00a0 This is because people&#8217;s email addresses change all the time, and once a message has bounced a certain number of times, our software (and any good mailing list management software) removes them from the list.\u00a0 In the last two months, despite several large campaigns, we&#8217;ve seen a net fall yet again of several hundred addresses from our lists, particularly the English list which is far and away the largest.\u00a0 In fact, the size our lists overall is no larger now than it was at the beginning of the year.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?page_id=30\">For the latest numbers, go here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things that is not widely known is that unless you constantly recruit new members to your mailing lists, over time they will gradually begin to shrink.\u00a0 This is because people&#8217;s email addresses change all the time, and once a message has bounced a certain number of times, our software (and any good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":765,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions\/765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}