Yey ! On Friday, September 24th we’ve passed 4000 subs. That’s a lot. I was thinking to write a good article about that, but I had tons of things to do, and way too few hours a day to do so.
I really intended to write, but then on Monday, Randy said the number subs already was 4700, with about 3500 feeds crawled. On Tuesday R|Mail noted 5000 subscriptions. And as the stats are showing today, we’re at 5290. All I can say is : Wow ! Talk about a fast growth !
Another funky thing that happened : if everything goes just right and you have a new or updated rss file ready, and the R|Mail bot just happens to crawl the feed and Outlook just happens to connect to the remote server on just the right time, things can go really fast. I was timing the average delivery rate for R|Mail with a few people to see if Randy really pulled it off good, and we were all struck with amazement. Nine seconds ! 9 ! That’s how long it took for the e-mail to arrive. Okay, it happened only once, that’s true. The other times it was between 2 and 15 minutes, which I still think is reasonably good. I’m really satisfied.
Randy has launched a blog too, ‘the R|Mail blog‘, affiliated with the KBCafe. He invited me to post stories there every now and then. I promised him I would whenever I could :) But the main function is to have a channel for all these users to interact with us and for us to have a forum where we can dump related posts or service notifications for about R|Mail.
Join the revolution today ! Put an R|Mail button on your blog, have your readers informed almost instantly of new blogposts you made !