Loyal and valued subscribers to the Newsmakers blog will notice something different in opening this post -- we've switched vendors to provide you with more convenient, reliable and robust email delivery service.
As we celebrated our 3rd anniversary last month (through harsh application of the "End Meeting for All" button, we've finally managed to shut down the last of the drunks among our vast global staff who attended the raucous Zoom office party), we realized our subscriber list had outgrown our existing system.
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(P.S. Apologies to those who received the never-ending Fantasia/War and Peace/Marcel Proust version of the Newsmakers newsletter on Sunday featuring fourteen -- 14, count 'em, 14 - past posts. That was supposed to be a test email, but that's what happens when you allow a couple of septuagenarians loose around any technology invented after the light bulb).
JR & HF
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