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Aslan · Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2003 12:13 pm Post subject: VDS 5 Mailing List??

Tommy, Can you create a readonly mailing list for the release of VDS 5 Question

Thanks

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

Why have a mailing list for VDS 5 when there are these forums and a
mailing list already exists?

Or do you mean you want to be notified via mail when VDS 5 is released?

Aslan · Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2003 2:02 pm Post subject:

Notified when VDS 5 is released.

Is the mailing list still active???

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

I'm not sure if users have been using it a lot lately as I have forgotten to
join again after I changed my e-mail address.

However, you can manage your subscription at the following page:
http://www.vdsworld.com/?page=vds-l

All you would need to do is join this and then I'm sure someone would
send a message that VDS 5 was released. Smile

Tommy · Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2003 8:06 pm Post subject:

Also there's S.A.D.E.'s VDS newsletter, you can subscribe to it in the registered user
area:

http://regarea.dialogscript.com/

S.A.D.E. doesn't seem to frequently send out the newsletters however, so I'm not sure
if they would actually notify you on VDS 5 release...

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

Tommy, what section of the regarea section can you subscribe to the
mailing list? I've never seen such a feature.

Tommy · Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2003 9:55 pm Post subject:

Then I'm not certain if S.A.D.E. has ported it from the older registered user area
from the times when VDS 3 was alive... I would check it, but right now I'm kind of
too lazy to find my username & password for that section again...

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

Oh. Well I wasn't around when VDS 3 was the main version. Right as of
today I checked and there wasn't any sign of a newsletter/mailing list.

Serge · Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2003 10:53 pm Post subject:

tommy,

i have never received a newsletter from sade even though i have registered to that effect

it would be fantastic if they did...including programming tips...including little know features...including sample codes...including news...

a newsletter from them would lift their profile a great deal Smile

Serge

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

I agree, Serge, that this would be fantastic and lift their image from what
it is now. But I think since they run many other projects (i.e. web hosting)
other than VDS, they wouldn't have time for such a thing.

Serge · Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2003 11:20 pm Post subject:

hi ff,

i had thought of that too and thought that just as garrett is the moderator for their forum, perhaps someone could volunteer to run the newsletter with, as a carrot, free versions/upgrades of vds

they may lose one sale but it would lift their image a great deal and i think that it would be worth the loss of a sale

the newsletter could also have a section for newbies and the newsletters could be archived so that newbies could go through the older newsletters as a kind of tutorial

Serge

Serge · Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2003 11:48 pm Post subject:

another thought...

the newsletter person would not have to write the whole newsletter himself (do we have female vds users' - perhaps i should include herself too...) as i'm sure that vds users would like to submit at one time or another an article with code...

something else, the newsletter person could scour the forum for worhtwhile info to include eg. undocumented features that have been discussed in the past...i certainly don't remember all the stuff that has been posted and the newsletter could be printed for future reference

for example, i didn't know about the $ in the use of hex numbers in vds

Serge

Garrett · Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2003 4:20 am Post subject:

I think in the life of the newsletter from dialogscript.com, there may
have been one or two of them. I decided to not do anymore since I
couldn't get anyone to contribute anything to the newsletter, and at
that time, I didn't have much to contribute myself either.

-Garrett

Serge · Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2003 5:50 am Post subject:

fair enough garrett

Serge

vdsalchemist · Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2003 1:37 pm Post subject: