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Comment by Tomoe N on January 10, 2024 at 12:14pm

Hi Kiki, thank you for your invitation. 
I am active but I am on fb more often and I don’t open iuoma Ning as often unless I get some mail, I post it on my blog. Same as Heide I spend time making art and doing photography related stuff. 
I currently send mail once a week or every other week sending 2-3 mails only. Just making my own pace. 

Comment by Heide Monster on January 10, 2024 at 11:49am

I am still an active member, but do not post often because I only have so much art time and I spend it actually painting and answering mail. I do look at the IUOMA site everyday. 

Comment by Kiki on January 10, 2024 at 11:35am

Well, the reason I created this group is to know who actually are active on IUOMA in year 2024 and to set mail art exchanges between these active members. I kind of knew there would not be many many active IUOMA members as of now, but that does not matter. What is important in this group is to gather for active members anyway and to exchange mail art.

I am also a member of Informal Exchange Group on IUOMA and even posted there, but I got disappointed because I got to know quite many people seems inactive in that group. I was like, " where are members who are active and are up for exchanges on IUOMA ? "

So, voila, here is a new group only for active members in 2024 who are up for
Mail Art exchanges. Come join us if you are also active on IUOMA ! :-)

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on January 10, 2024 at 11:00am

ACTIVE MEMBERS? See the summary of my early study below: about 5% of listed IUOMA Members are 'active' , about 1200.

BIRTHDAYS TODAY AND EVERYDAY 22 DECEMBER, 2013 TO 21 JANUARY 2014 . IUOMA's 'REAL' MEMBERSHIP

• Posted by Valentine Mark Herman on December 22, 2013 at 5:30am
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I have been 'monitoring' those IUOMA members whose Birthdays have appeared on the 'Birthdays Today' part of this site. I started this, because I did not recognise many of their names, and wondered if they were indeed active members of IUOMA?

This led me to try and define what an 'Active Member' was, and to see how many of those whose birthdays were listed are indeed active.

I found that about 1 in 5 of them were active, and extrapolated from this that the Active Membership of IUOMA (based on the starting figure of 3263 Members on 22 December, 2013, was, at the end of the month's analysis, about 630.

The daily statistics for the month long period are below. (As are the methodological and statistical shortcomings, of which I am only too well aware.)
Mark Twain wrote that there are 'Lies, damned lies, and statistics', and you can read whatever you like into my statistics (and lies!).

I draw the following conclusions from them:

i) about 20% of IUOMA's Members are 'Active' as I have defined it.

ii) the remaining 80% may or may not be active Mail Artists outside the IUOMA network

iii) at one time this 80% were active IUOMA Mail Artists --that's why they joined (but see vii) below!)

iv) it is not necessary to be in any network to be a Mail Artist (well, I suppose you have to have at least one other person in your network to send Mail Art too!)

v) within IUOMA, a small number of people are responsible for a large amount of activity. They are the 'Super Actives'.

vi) as to the rest of us, well, we have different levels of Mail Art activity. I see it a bit like a love affair: start enthusiastically and with great passion, but then what you do and how vigorously you do it sort of tails off over time, and eventually you just get to live with your Mail Art personage.

vii) many IUOMA Mail Artists have been and gone, and, I trust, are still Mail Arting. As Mail Art is supposed to be enjoyable, and it certainly is for me, I would like to dedicate this whole Blog to one of our number who you have probably never heard of, but whose approach to Mail Art somehow seems to encapsulate what it is all about: fun.

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