Email All Your Users Day: I posted this four years ago today. It’s still a good idea. Will someone — anyone? — get behind this?
Therefore, I hereby proclaim December 1 as “Email All Your Users Day.” On that day, everyone who runs a service that has user accounts should email ALL their users to remind them they have an account, what the account is for, and where the login screen is. The member can then decide what he or she wants to do with it.
In my eight years on the Internet, I've subscribed to hundreds of services and created at least that many user accounts across the Web. In the last few years, I've gotten better at recording the user names and passwords when I do this, but there are still many, many dozen…
A fellow Gadgetopian pointed out to me that for most people "four years ago today" would be March 7, 2003 not September 13, 2003. Maybe the early switch to DST has got you confused a bit.
Sounds like an excellent idea to me. Although Feb 1 might work better, while things are emotionally slow. Although Feb is busy in the back office (into the cruch of hte last two months of the fiscal year), I figure early December is an invitation to have everything get lost under the swamp of Christmas fooferaw.