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This is the second attempt at sending this newsletter.
If I filled your email box yesterday with multiple copies of this newsletter I am SOOOOOO DREADFULLY SORRY. Our normally well behaved mailing list server went completely BESERK and got itself into some awful kind of loop .. and before I could stop it it had sent out THOUSANDS of emails :-((
Rebooted it .. uploaded the configuration again .. and it now seems to have sorted itself out.
I certainly hope that never happens again.
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There is quite a bit to get through in this issue ... so on with the show :-)

As always we would like to welcome everybody who have joined as members in the last week, and also everyone who has subscribed to our newsletter/mailing list. We hope you enjoy your stay here with us.

Apology to PayPal members
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I would like to make an apology to everybody who have joined up via PayPal and who haven't received the last few weekly newsletters. It is my fault. Our original subscription mechanisms automatically joined new members to our mailing list, but at the moment I still handle PayPal subscriptions manually and I forgot all about adding your email addresses to our database. Please accept my apologies for that oversight. If you would like to read those newsletters you may have missed we have an archive of all past newsletters on the site at http://www.psp-tubes.com/site_news.asp

Tube News
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Barry has just finished uploading another 53 tubes onto the site.

There are 6 new themes today - Clocks, Fences, Frogs, Fruit, Grass and Water.

Tubes were also added to Birds, Flowers, Nautical, Miscellaneous, Butterflies, Trees, Palms & Plants, Earth & Sky, and Sea Critters. Members can grab them of the "Members Area Newest Tubes" page where they are all grouped for your convenience.

They are so hot off the press they are still steaming ... :-))

I haven't yet managed to build the sample pages in the free area for these new themes. I will try to have them completed over the weekend.

Site News
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We would love to hear from you what tubes you would like us to carry. During the week I wrote the code for a voting mechanism for the site. Members may vote for new themes, as well as add their votes to themes that have already been requested. You will find the voting section at the bottom of the "Members Main Index" page.

Anybody may vote for themes that members have already requested, and the voting for non-members is located at the bottom of the Free Tubes page. Please feel free to use this facility as often as you like ... its the only way we know what you guys are really looking for :-)

I have not yet brought the new Greeting Card system online ... there are not enough cards in the system yet. Those that are already there are EXCELLENT btw ... and many thanks to everyone who has submitted them. You can go to http://www.psp-tubes.com/cards/show_all_cards.asp if you would like to see what cards have already been uploaded - please feel free to upload more.

If there is already an aniversary card you are very welcome to upload other aniversary cards .. the bigger the selection the better the system will be :-)

HTML Email
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Starting next week I am hoping to start sending these newsletters as HTML format rather than the text format they are in now. This text format is SERIOUSLY boring .. and I am certain the HTML format will look a LOT more pleasing to the eye.

After all .. this is a graphics group .. and our email should look good :-)

KLEZ virus
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I want to just visit briefly on the KLEZ virus scourge. Many of you may be receiving infected emails that look like they are coming from psp-tubes.com .. I know you must be because I get them from myself .. lolol. The KLEZ virus is very clever in that it "spoofs" where it has come from. Basically it works like this ... machine A gets infected .. the infection looks up in machine A's address book for a list of victims .. it then starts sending emails to addresses it finds in the address book, but uses 1 of the addresses it finds as the "from" address in the email envelope. Infected emails arriving from machine A actually look like they have come from machine B.

Bottom line .. with the KLEZ virus you never know where the infected email came from .. its not from where it looks like.

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Visit http://www.psp-tubes.com/online_store.asp for all of our membership options, and PayPal options.
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All thats left is for me to wish you a safe and restful weekend.

Happy tubing.

Alan
Webmaster : PSP-TUBES dot COM
http://www.psp-tubes.com

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