A couple of comments...
First off, the mailing may not have the results you'd normally expect due to spam. When registering for boards or anything where an email address may be public, a lot of people will not give what is their true "primary" address that they actually pay attention to. And it's easy for a mailing to get lost in an avalanche of spam in those public mailboxes.
Aside from that, everyone is dead on accurate...an announcement by itself to a group of established webmasters wont do much. I have all of the sponsors, hosting, processing, etc that I need. I'm not looking for that when I login.
However, if someone has a new angle, and they can talk it up and convince me that it might make me money or save me money, now I'm interested and paying attention. Or likewise if everyone on the board is clamoring about some new program, innovation by a processor or whatever, that'll get my attention.
And even if there's nothing new going on with a sponsor. If it does come time that i need a new host or something, I'm very likely to go with one that I know has been around for a while and is stable....the buttons on top of Oprano are likely to get one of those occasional clicks from me at that point.
"Board reputation" still carries a lot of weight when it comes time to write checks or send traffic.
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