We have an email list, you can check them on the Chatroom page linked on top of the site besides the About page link. But I genuinely have a low expectation for anyone listed there to be contactable, save for some.

But for having an enormous database of emails, for as far as my knowledge goes, no one ever used them to communicate with members alike. So if we were to utilize them, what would we actually use our emails for?

Lately, I along with some members had been having some casual banters through them and sometimes asked if they'll visit the IRC for that day. Just trying to hang out with a fellow Dollars comrade you know?

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Hey Firion, I propose the idea of a newsletter. Problem is, for a newsletter, you need -good- and -consistent- content, something that will keep the community engaged and possibly bring some old dollars members back to the BBS. One option that comes to mind is a monthly curated list of the top threads of every board, but there are several issues with that, some boards don't have new relevant threads each month, and it probably wouldn't be very interesting.

I'd love to hear your's and the rest of the community's input on content for a theoretical newsletter, or just ideas about what to do with the massive e-mail list.

Newsletter sounds like a fun idea, though we gotta tackle the overly quiet boards around the site firstly first. Into the backlog it goes?

So what to do with emails?

Well, people could fill out some sort of form and then do email penpals. I don't know. I'm not a big emailer.

Also as for the newsletter, wouldn't it be somewhat fun to put news headlines from all over the world into it? I love reading news from elsewhere, and it's not likely to get circulated quickly, so it would be cool to read about that sort of thing. Like, what's trending in Japan? What are people wearing in Sri Lanka? What bizarre new city habit is happening that many people don't find newsworthy? Like, in the United States of America we're getting a new Statue of Liberty from France, so we're gonna have two, apparently. Some people I know are crazy about scrapbooking and felting. I've also noticed that certain areas have had lingo changes while I was in a house quarantining or whatever, lol. So just little stuff like this, maybe. Some satire. A comic. A weird story from someone's school, if not too specific or something. Missing cat, most common vehicle colors, a joke you saw somewhere. Independent poetry formations. Best street food. You know? That sort.

>>3 The problem with a newsletter is that you have to include a working physical address in every email for it to be legal (or face fines of 10k+ per email iirc). One of us would have to take out a p.o. box or subscribe to a virtual mailbox.

>>7 In addition to this, I think we'd probably need a robust "unsubscribe" mechanic just out of courtesy.

>>1 As for emails, it actually has been used many times before in a similar way. Many years ago, there would frequently be "we should do something" mass emails sent out to everyone, which eventually would become private group chats and whatnot to avoid the issues we've outlined.

A newsletter of mission updates would be cool I think, no idea how to make that make sense tangibly though. I think at best the initial version of this idea might just be to reach out to everyone to see who's even still interested in staying in the loop, creating an email list 2.0 of sorts (an off-handed idea, but we could make a literal 2.0 list).