Just a thought.  Maybe you could provide what ever keywords you use to  
capture the RAIN news alerts and then those who want to receive them in that  
form daily can.  I personally receive news alerts on several clients I  have 
and it works wonderfully.  Others certainly can do as you  suggested and 
send them to a specific rules/filters box. And those who do not  really care to 
receive them should just send them to spam and deal with them  there.
 
I personally do not read every one and any volume increase has not  been 
noticed by me.  I read titles and read what is of interest to me and  delete 
others.
 
I want to close in saying Thank You for undertaking this volunteer  task 
for the past 14 years.  I never realized how many volunteer hours you  spend 
per week on it and for that I am very grateful and feel sure others are as  
well.. I am sure when you started out in 1996 the time was significantly  
shorter and with the increase of the volumes of info now available it as grown  
enormously.  I am involved as a volunteer in an org. and I spend more than  
10 hrs per week on that.  I suggest you do what you have to do for your  
life on this.   All of us will survive.
 
Again, thanks Peter for devoting so much time to keep us informed and up to 
 date. Maybe we should now be keeping ourselves informed.
 
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In a message dated 5/15/2010 8:44:20 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
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As many  of you have noticed I have started posting individual RAINdrops
rather than  continue compiling a weekly digest of the news. I know that 
many
have  complained to some listadmins at the volume.

first of all let me give  some background. RAIN has been in continuous
production (with the  occasional drought due to vacations and the World Cup)
since starting in  August 1996. Over the past 14 years I have worked to
produce RAIN in the  most efficient and least burdensome manner for me.
Currently I have over 50  Google news alerts running. On average I receive
about 30 alerts each day  with each one containing 1 to 3 stories each.
Reviewing reach alert for  appropriate stories takes on average 2-3 minutes
or about 60-90 minutes  each. compiling RAIN required at a minimum 2 hours 
or
more each week. Thus  RAIN is/was taking 10 or more hours a week.

My paying job has me on the  road generally every other week and sometimes
back to back trips. thus  causing RAIN to pile up.

Many ask why not use twitter or do a blog.  I've started using twitter, but
the most efficient means for distributing  RAIN is to the listservs.

Now some have complained that they didn't  like getting so many RAINdrops in
a row, for that I have a solution. Every  email client provides users with
the ability to create rules or filters for  managing incoming emails. I
consistently use RAIN in the subject line. with  that in mind you can create
a rule that will automatically grab RAINdrops  before they hit your inbox 
and
place it in a specific folder or into the  trashbin whichever you prefer.
I've do this for the numerous out of office  messages that flood my email
address everytime I post. It is so efficient  that I am amazed when one Out
of office message slips  through.

Finally RAIN messages are read in over 50 countries around the  world.
granted the majority of readers are in the US and the UK.

You  can follow me via twitter (see my sig-block) and I am considering a
blog,  but only if it the time commitment isn't burdensome.

any complaints,  suggestions or whatever can be sent directly to me. No need
to complain to  listadmins.. I don't bite ;-)

-- 
Peter Kurilecz CRM  CA
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Richmond,  Va
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