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["James J." <m1garand@speakeasy.net>]

All,
   Happy New Year to you all.  Just a quick update for you all:

1) Could still use some more material for the January issue, so keep 
sending things in.
2)  I'm converting the business operation from (don't laugh) Avery Label 
Maker to Quick Books with Customer Manager.  This wasn't cheap, but it's 
hard to keep track of all the e-mails and calls I get on a weekly basis 
with label-making software.  Between my poor short-term memory and the 
time I spend on the road, I haven't been giving you all the focus you 
deserve (after all, you are paying for this newsletter), so hopefully 
this software will make it easier to track all my outstanding actions.  
Unfortunately Avery and Quick Books won't talk to one-another, so I have 
to re-enter all the data by hand, so please be patient.
3)Along those lines, please be patient if I haven't responded to a 
particular issue that you may have contacted me about.  Feel free to 
pester me again if you care to remind me.
4) I've been updating the WebPage this week, and hopefully, by the end 
of the month, I'll be ready to post it on line.  The old pages are still 
up for now.  This is the first step towards making all the old issues 
available online to people who were a subscriber when it was published.  
In other words, of you started subscribing in 1997, you'll have access 
to all the issues back to '97.  Also, in time, I'd like to make 
individual back-issues for sale on-line for new subscribers and 
over-seas subscribers.

5)Kurt Schley, the Founding Father of this newsletter has volunteered to 
take over the social callendar for the newsletter and web-site.

6) and Finally, as there have been so many questions about this 
particular topic:  The newsletter will no longer be published free on 
the internet, and it hasn't been for nearly a year.  As all of the 
issues/concerns that originaly led to the free .pdf 's on the web-site 
have been resolved, we have returned to the original format of a paid 
suscriber base.  For those who prefer the downloads, I can always mail 
the issues to you until I get a password-protected download system 
established on the web-site.

Happy 2005 to all of you!  I plan on having the January issue out the 
last week of the month.
Best Wishes,
James Jewell

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