Thank you John for the first edition of the PortableApps.com Newsletter!
I just discovered it in my mailbox and was truly thrilled.
Congratulations for finally getting it done and out the door. I am really looking forward to all the new releases and the next one.
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looks really good for a first try
and i like the new RSS feed of site news (if it was there before i didnt know about it though it has one of the weirdest urls i have seen
https://portableapps.com/taxonomy/term/19/0/feed
but the normal feed I think is https://portableapps.com/feeds/general.
I only noticed the "weired feed" and the notifications sections today.
"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate
Yes, John, thanks for the newsletter. Finally I can keep up-to-date on what's happening here.
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." -- Robert Frost
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: baby ain't mine." -- Adam Holguin
one John, good to see it released, no mention of Toucan 2 in the upcoming apps, or was it really upcoming new apps?
Aw, man, I should have added that. I was just doing new ones... but Toucan should have been on there anyway. It'll be in next month's with a longer highlight.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
Does that mean you are releasing soon then?
You're welcome. I wanted to get one out in time for people to vote for the SourceForge awards. And it was long overdue.
The bounces problem isn't quite solved, of course... and I need to do that before sending out another one. There are currently 2,100 bounces and they're still rolling in.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
I still don't get the bounces.
Are they vacation responders???
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Auto-Responders, anti-spam lameness, full mailbox, invalid account, suspended account, etc, etc. Things like invalid account you have to remove before you email again or providers like AOL, etc will block ALL email from you.
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but perhaps some color and more HTML elements would do good ;).
How frequent is this? Biweekly? Monthly?
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The newsletter is plaintext for a reason. It's easier to read on all clients and devices (blackberry, palm, iphone) and it's less likely to be blocked as spam. It's monthly as described.
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Is there a version of the newsletter online available for viewing?
I don't want to subscribe to anything, I just want to read the thing.
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Yessir there is: https://portableapps.com/newsletter/past_issues
Could there be a spot on the newsletter for user submissions of tips and tricks maybe a sticky topic in the General forum?
mean like BluePlanet's ClamScan utility?
Yeah user submissions sounds like a good idea but I don't think John or the mods would want to go through all of them, and if all users were allowed then plenty of spam.
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for the first newsletter, may there be many more to come still!
Kind regards
Tienie
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