0.7.17 ?

There were a couple of quick updates to Miranda - .15, .16 and .17. I noticed that .15 portable was set up a few days after the .15 application was released. I don't think there were earth-shattering changes, just said windows compatibility IIRC. But I have this general question... who does the ports to portable apps? Any user that feels like it and is capable of generating the .paf.exe?

Second question. Is the .paf.exe. simply a way to integrate the install? If I install 0.7.17 on my hard drive, and copy appropriate files into the right places under the portableapps structure - does that perform the same function?

Thirdly - there is a place to sign up for a monthly newsletter that was supposed to list new applications as they are added. I signed up, never got anything, and now I just looked and saw there was only an initial newsletter, one time. Am I missing something? Or was this just a an idea that turned out to be too much effort to keep up? Maybe that sign-up page ought to be removed or modifed?

P.S. This is my first post. I just set up my account... I do not see my signature in teh post, nor a setting to add it or not - it sounded liek it should be automatic. Is this just my view, because I posted, or is the signature not added?