OBJECTIVE The objective was to clarify factors, including Internet-accessed advice for smoking cessation, associated with smoking cessation among participants of the Quit Smoking Marathon (QSM), a one-month smoking cessation program involving use of e-mails and a mailinglist. METHODS The subjects were 88 volunteers who aimed to quit smoking and completed the QSM program. Those who remained ab...

There are some tools that help system administrators administer machines and networks using graphical user interface and Web interface. This paper presents a Web-based system that automates some processes to connect machines to a network, create accounts, mount remote home directories, set mailing lists, and so on by cooperating with multiple servers, and describes its implementation. By introd...

Social movements need to coordinate their political activities. They are often characterized by a fragile organization structure and sparse personnel, financial, and technical resources. In this paper we describe how a transnational networks of social activists, the European Social Forum (ESF), uses a central mailing list as a major communication tool. By means of a long-term field study, we an...

Mailing lists are the primary medium of communication in open source projects. For some projects the sheer volume of emails on the mailing lists becomes unmanageable and messages may begin to be ignored. This can have a number of negative effects on an open source project. We present a way to predict who is most likely to respond to an email, thus providing the potential of giving mailing list ...

Since 1969, families participating in the U.S. Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) have been sent a mailing asking them to update or verify their contact information in order to keep track of their whereabouts between waves. Having updated contact information prior to data collection is associated with fewer call attempts, less tracking, and lower attrition. Based on these advantages, two exp...

The performance of a direct marketing scoring model at a particular mailing depth, d, is usually measured by the total amount of revenue generated by sending an offer to the customers with the 100d% largest scores (predicted values). Commonly used variable selection algorithms optimize some function of model fit (squared difference between training and predicted values). This article (1) discus...