Lockergnome redux

Chris asked me to be sure and let everyone here know about this cool development:

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I’ve been producing Lockergnome (with help from friends) since 1996. Today, however, we’re taking a gigantic leap forward with it. As you may have noticed from the hiccups last night, we’re officially under construction - which is difficult to do when you’re already running a site like ours. I believe the changes, however, are for the better: * Newsletters will again include all content (minus your comments) * We have full-text RSS feeds available (including for comments) * We can accept your trackbacks and comments in realtime * You can sign on to contribute to any channel, any time * There are truly related items appended to every post online I’m currently on the road (in Palo Alto), but will be returning in a few short hours. When I’m back at the gnomestead, I’ll be helping squish a few bugs and cleaning up some formatting and template errors. Please bear with us through this transition time? And yes, it’s a slightly new design - much like the design found on my personal blog. Don’t get too comfortable with it, though (at least, the way it looks at the time of this entry). I’m actively seeking a CSS / XHTML Web developer to help give you a completely new, and very functional, interface. The entire content portion of Lockergnome is now running on WordPress! If the above changes don’t sound very exciting to you, what about the prospect of actually making money based on my expertise - for free. Yes, we’re going to soon open up Lockergnome.com for you to blog about anything. Even if you already have a blog, understand that we can give you fantastically outstanding promotion for awesome content - not to mention excellent search engine placement. Technology or not, we are looking to help you make money from your knowledge. It will be free, easy, and you’ll own all your content. I’ve optimized our templates so that you can sign up for Google AdSense (free) and start generating revenue as soon as possible. We’re looking for beta testers, if you’re at all interested. Cool?

He asked me to specifically mention that he would like to see any Gnomie with an opinion, passion or fascination ("...especially politics"...) to get involved. He's also seeking a WordPress developer. Got talent? Get noticed. You've got nothing to lose but a few minutes of your time every day.

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Newsletters will again include all content (minus your comments)

This might not be the proper forum (place) to post this, but I didn't see a forum just for the newsletters?

Has anybody else noticed how large the e-mail newsletters have become with their new format?

These are the size of the last 4 newsletters that I received:

Tech News Watch ~ October 10, 2006 > 170KB
IT Professionals ~ October 11, 2006 > 144KB
Web Developers ~ October 11, 2006 > 116KB
Windows Fanatics ~ October 10, 2006 > 127KB

Before changing to the format that was used before the current format, the newsletters would average about 45KB I believe, then they grew to average about 80KB in the previous format. Now the size increases with every daily mailing due to the inclusion of week old articles.

I would imagine that this also increases the mailing costs dramatically due to the large mailing base?

Just an observation on my part