The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 25.443  Friday, 21 November 2014

 

From:        Hardy M. Cook <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>

Date:         Friday, November 21, 2014

Subject:    Super Newsletter and Explanation

 

SHAKSPER: Super Newsletter with Important Explanation

 

Dear SHAKSPER Subscribers,

 

I have faced many difficulties in the past few months. Here I will only talk about the technical ones. In the message below, “Update,” I explain others. 

 

During the summer, SHAKSPER migrated to another, faster server. Since then my problems have been legion. I won’t go into all of them, but recently there has been a serious problem with the SMTP mail server from Google. One attempt that Ron and I made was to go from free to a paid Google service. With Google technical support Ron reconfigured some of the send mail functions of the Joomla platform. 

 

We were both under the impression that as soon as I started the paid service that I would be getting the option of sending up to 5,000 emails a day rather than the 500 with the free service. We were wrong. 

 

I thought that all had been worked out several times, only to discover that the past three Newsletters that I sent to subscribers resulted in few actual deliveries (considering the approaching 1,100 subscribers) and that as a result hundreds and hundreds of subscribers were deleted from the list. 

 

I tired to resend those three messages with similar results until we realized that Google had not activated our 5,000 emails a day service. It may take a month or six weeks, but I have decided to try to make the best of the situation.

 

At this time, of the 1,033 subscribers (I am still trying to determine if the others deleted wish to continue), The October 23rd Newsletter was delivered to 718 subscribers, the November 12th to 258, and the November 13th to 659.

 

I decided to make a Super Newsletter containing all of those posting because there are important announcements and on-going discussions. If you have received them or don’t wish to read them, please just delete this message. If you wish to read any you may either click on the link in the three table of contents or scroll down.

 

With the current limit, it takes over two days to deliver ONE Newsletter, but I pledge to continue on until Google comes through with what I am paying for. 

 

I still have an inbox full of other announcements and other submissions. I pledge to work through them as well as I can to insure continuing SHAKSPER service to its subscribers. When the day comes that we get the increased email limit, SHAKSPER will return to being the daily organ to discussion of all things Shakespearean that it was intended to be.

 

Unfortunately, I have not been able to follow through with all of my plans for finding and expediting Assistant and Associate Editors to help me with some of the special features of the list and the web site. I will return to them, keeping in mind the long view of SHAKSPER’s future.

 

Sincerely,

Hardy M. Cook

Editor of SHAKSPER

Shaksper.net

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