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#141 Post by smokey01 »

greengeek wrote:I would have thought that a thread in the "Announcements" section would be adequate. Maybe a sticky? That way any new post announcing a newsletter release should provide an automatic alert to any user that has ticked the "watch this topic for replies" box.
Thanks greengeek, that would work fine for people who read the forum but probably not the wider community.

BTW, when uploading an article via the Newsletter page, please add "Written by (Yourname)" at the top of the article.

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#142 Post by bigpup »

smokey01,

http://www.smokey01.com/newsletters/

I downloaded the notecase edition of the newsletter- january2017.ncd.

Web links do not work if you are reading the notecase edition.
They work in the read online.

The read online is much better to read.

I suggest you only offer the online version.

I sent you my first notecase file.
All I can say is I tried.
Hope it works. :shock:
Somehow I got some wrong text in it, so i corrected and resubmitted.

Would be nice if there was a way to check what got sent to you.
Maybe put it in a download location, so we could check to make sure you got what we intended to send.
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#143 Post by smokey01 »

bigpup wrote:smokey01,

http://www.smokey01.com/newsletters/

I downloaded the notecase edition of the newsletter- january2017.ncd.

Web links do not work if you are reading the notecase edition.
They work in the read online.

The read online is much better to read.

I suggest you only offer the online version.

I sent you my first notecase file.
All I can say is I tried.
Hope it works. :shock:
Try double clicking on the link.

Thanks for the article.
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#144 Post by bigpup »

Somehow I got some wrong text in the notecase file I sent, so i corrected and resubmitted.

Would be nice if there was a way to check what got sent to you.
Maybe put it in a download location, so we could check to make sure you got what we intended to send.

The double click thing. :shock:

That worked to see the links.

Now I can check to see if the links I put in my notecsae submission really work. :lol:
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#145 Post by smokey01 »

bigpup wrote: Would be nice if there was a way to check what got sent to you.
Maybe put it in a download location, so we could check to make sure you got what we intended to send.
You could create a md5sum file like:
md5sum yapi.ncd > yapi.ncd.md5.txt

Then upload that file as well. I can compare sent with received and if they match, all good.
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#146 Post by jamesbond »

smokey01 wrote:Before I waste any more brain cells on this, does anyone have any other ideas?
http://www.freelists.org/
Never used it myself. But it looks legit.
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#147 Post by musher0 »

Hello smokey01.

You probably know this already:

The simplest mailing list is to create one from your regular mail account.
You send a copy to yourself with everybody else on that list on the "blind
carbon copy (BCC)" line.

Otherwise, that I know of, there is OnlineGroups.net. It's free to start off,
but you have to pay when you reach a certain number of subscribers.
https://onlinegroups.net
https://onlinegroups.net/groups/ogn_admins/faq

OnlineGroups.net is probably overkill for the purpose of sending out a
newsletter once a month: it's more of a listserv than a straight mailing
list, really.

IHTH.
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#148 Post by smokey01 »

jamesbond wrote:
smokey01 wrote:Before I waste any more brain cells on this, does anyone have any other ideas?
http://www.freelists.org/
Never used it myself. But it looks legit.
@jamesbond freelist looks like it might do the job nicely.

I've set it up now I'm just waiting for confirmation of my account. Apparently it can take up to 24 hours. :cry:

Ok, my account has been confirmed and I have it working. I just need to do a bit more testing before I go live. :lol: :lol: :lol:

You will have a choice of subscription, mail list and/or RSS. :wink:
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#149 Post by smokey01 »

@kerl, thanks for putting the link on the first post.

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#150 Post by anikin »

smokey01 wrote:
anikin wrote:
greengeek wrote:.....One of the features that I use a lot may also be worth a mention - the use of the tilde/backtick key ~ to open a terminal window in the current rox window. For years I used to navigate through the main menu to get a terminal window now i just use that ~ key as the shortcut....

greengeek,

An absolutely brilliant tip - thank you very much!
It's already in the Feb issue.

Please, do not put this tip to the newsletter. Let us not disclose it, so that our competitors, adversaries and enemies will not use it to their advantage. We need to be vigilant. Let us keep the newsletter superfluous, cheesy and totally void of substance - just like it is shaping up to be right now.
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#151 Post by musher0 »

Hello all.

I think we forgot to have an inauguration ceremony for our Newsletter.

You know, the kind of ceremony where you invite a Medecine Man to ward
off bad spirits...

It still isn't too late, I suppose.

BFN.
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#152 Post by bigpup »

We did!
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#153 Post by smokey01 »

The email subscription and rss functionality on the Puppy Linux Newsletter page seems to work. Only time will tell.
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#154 Post by LazY Puppy »

Subscribed and got a confirmation mail.

Clicked the link in the confirmation mail and got a 'success' message for subscription to the Puppy Newsletter.
RSH

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#155 Post by smokey01 »

LazY Puppy wrote:Subscribed and got a confirmation mail.

Clicked the link in the confirmation mail and got a 'success' message for subscription to the Puppy Newsletter.
I just checked, you're in the list so it seems to be working.

The real test will be on 01 Feb 2017 when the next newsletter is published.
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#156 Post by musher0 »

Hi, smokey01.

I subscribed as well and just informed DW's Jesse Smith of this new
subscribing capacity.

IHTH. BFN.
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#157 Post by oldyeller »

I signed up too, can't wait to see next months issue

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#158 Post by slavvo67 »

I'm in, as well. Is the newsletter going to eventually become like an online Puppy user database? I'm thinking it could be almost a Wiki type item in its online version. We have a Wiki or two already, though, don't we?

Anyway, the newsletter looks like a fun Puppy project!

Best,

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#159 Post by bigpup »

To me a newsletter should be a place to see news about what is going on in Puppy.
New programs
New Puppy versions
New improvements
New bug fixes
New ideas for Puppy
etc.....

Some ideas:
Testimonials
spotlight or profile of Puppy developers
Educational articles
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#160 Post by marmalade »

Enough requests for email addresses already - how private are they? I get enough spam thanks!
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