Hosing Down The Dust; and This "Expanded" Issue
We're finally catching up, thank goodness. I spent an entire day just going through reader mail and subscriber service requests, and got through most of it; I'm within striking distance of the rest. <g> Most readers got their last issue normally, but a minority--- especially those who had pending address-change requests, for example--- did not. For those folks, this will be the first issue they've seen after the hiatus. (If you missed the first new issue, it's here for Plus! subscribers http://langalist.com/Plus/newsletters/2006/2006-09-18plus.asp and here for Standard Edition readers: http://langa.com/newsletters/2006/2006-09-18.htm )
I again sincerely apologize for the delay in service.
Relatedly, I discovered that some CGI scripts on the Langa.Com web sites had broken due to an upgrade that happened when I was unavoidably offline. Tom Koch at http://TRKHosting.com did his usual excellent job in setting things straight, and now the "recommend to a friend" and various reader self-service scripts are once again working the way they should.
And the good folks at http://Dundee.Net , the site from which four of the five versions of this newsletter are mailed, also corrected a problem that cropped up--- again, while I was offline: When my mailboxes overflowed, the bounce-backs caused one of my mailing lists to unsubscribe me and then totally delete me from the roster! Normally that's a good thing--- I don't keep dead addresses on the mailing lists in an effort to pad subscription numbers, as some newsletter publishers do. But in this case, I couldn't log into or do anything with my own mailing list! <g> But that's fixed now, too.
In fact--- I hope I don't jinx anything by saying this--- but it looks like all the major pieces are working again. And hey, we even have most of the boxes unpacked in our new home. We're making progress, anyway!
Finally, you may note that this issue is a little longer than usual; we'll do that, when possible, to help backfill some of the content we weren't able to send you while I was unavoidably offline.
Onward!
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