It's been almost a month...and


It's been almost a month...and I'm back!

I've been to Vancouver and back...and then San Francisco and back, and believe me...that's a hell of a lot of travelling!

In between...I had a problem. I found out that my mailing list provider 'lost' around 8,000 of my 25,000 subscribers!

Now...what would you do if you were me?

Well...I got a little annoyed at first...and chased up their support team to find out what went wrong...which took almost a week!

It turns out that apparently they hadn't been removing all of the bounced emails from my list for some time...so suddenly I have lost a third of my list due to bounce-backs!

Would you get angry? Would you wonder if they were really all bounce-backs? Would you cry yourself to sleep with the knowledge that you had lost a third of your 'business' overnight?

What do you think I did?

Well...I didn't let it bother me!

Why? It didn't bother me because I know that the success of any ezine isn't down to the numbers of subscribers it has. I know that if they were really bounced emails then it doesn't make a blind bit of difference.

But...what if they weren't? Well...then perhaps those subscribers who wonder where I am might find their way back.

And those that don't? Perhaps they were only light readers who wouldn't care if I never emailed them again.

I'll never know...but I'm certainly not going to get all worked up about something that I have absolutely no control over.

Would you do the same in my situation?