To subscribers (ii)
from the janitor at Viet Nam Literature Project
Hi,
Last week you were 1 of 88 subscribers. 1 more signed up 1 hour after the previous post went up at oh-dark thirty, December 29, 2023.
This week you are 1 of 89 who have asked that we notify you of each new Viet Nam letter. We first called for subscribers 2 years ago on January 28, 2022 and began publishing proper on February 9.
89 subscribers to date averages to nearly 1 new subscription a week over 98 weeks of activity. The actual rate has remained the same, 1 plus or minus 1, whether we have sent 1, 2, or 3 letters that week.
Exactly 1 subscriber has withdrawn.
Where have they come from? About a dozen subscribers have referred all their contacts to Viet Nam letters.
Exactly 1 referral has subscribed.
I recognize by email address about 30 subscribers who are friends to my Daniel Edward Duffy page at Facebook, or visitors to our Viet Nam Literature Project page there.
Inspection of the other email addresses suggests to me that at least another 30 have come from readers of my posts to the listserv of the Vietnamese Studies Group. Each week I announce there 1 post, new or old.
What do subscribers read? I can’t tell and don’t want to know about individuals.
Exactly 1 post has attracted every subscriber. That was early on, when every 1 of you was my longtime reader from other venues.
As your numbers have grown, the percentage of those subscribers opening their notification of a new letter has settled down. About half of the subscribers have opened their notification to read any 1 of the most recent 1 hundred and 50 letters.
The percentage has varied from 35 to 74, so it is a different half every time. We have mixed interests, me and you, that overlap or don’t as you all do with one another.
That is what happens when a fractured nation is the subject and the predicate of every sentence. What nation?
Oh, good. You are reading. Thanks for signing up.
Dan
Each of the 5 thumbnails above links to their recent Viet Nam letter. 3 have attracted 1 or 2 readers to subscribe. The 1 on Arthur W. Galston and dioxin did not and neither did the 1 on William A. Galston and Kant, out of the 130 readers each attracted.
Viet Nam letters respects the property of others under paragraph 107 of United States Code Title 17. If we asked for permission it wouldn’t be criticism. We explain our fair use at length in the letter of September 12, 2022.
The colophon of these Viet Nam letters, directly above, shows the janitor speaking with poet David A. Willson on a Veterans Day.