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Ärende: [VOICENWS] Admin:  Happy New Year 2008
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++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service   http://www.os2voice.org ++

From: Mark Dodel <feedbackDESPAM@DESPAMos2voice.org>

Happy New Year to everyone.  Its 2008, at least here on the East coast of 
the United States.  eComStation 2.0 is still in testing, but should be 
delivered to us in 2008.  VOICE begins its 12th year of existence and the 
News list has been around since May 7, 1997 as well. Certainly a lot has 
changed in that time, but it seems there are still a few people interested 
in using OS/2 and its latest incarnation eComStation.  Hopefully 2008 
continues to bring new items of interest.  The VOICE web site received a 
major updating this past year, but previous features like the OS/2-eCS User 
Groups and Mailing List pages are still available as
resources if you need them.  Also there are forums available at 
http://www.os2voice.org/phorum.php which are not being used at all so far. 
   Registration is required, but is free.

Just a reminder if you are posting to the VOICE News list, please either 
use the web form on http://www.os2voice.org/SubmitNews.php or directly via 
email to submitDESPAM@DESPAMos2voice.org (remove the DESPAM).  Sending a 
post directly to one of the moderators may result in it being delayed or 
lost.  Any email sent to the feedback address only goes to the moderators, 
so if you have a question about a post please make sure you send a copy to 
the original poster.

As always if you are submitting an announcement try to make it as brief as 
possible, but with basic information like a description of the item and a 
URL where more information can be found as well as a URL where it can be 
downloaded if it is software.  Also if its an update please list what has 
been changed if you know it.  Please also give complete identity of the 
sender as well as a contact address.  We will do our best to obscure that, 
but readers may need to contact you.

If you are a developer don't just upload your work to hobbes or your own 
web site and forget it.  Write a short announcement and send it to VOICE so 
the OS/2-eComStation community can know what you have done and what the 
software is capable of doing.  If so please send out an announcement so 
people know what you have worked on.  I can only hunt down so much 
information on my own and it would be a really big help if people would 
send in announcements.  A big thank you to Peter Weilbacher, Eugene 
Gorbunoff, Sander Nyman, Peter Koller, Paul Smedley, Jan van Wijk,  and 
Herwig Bauernfeind among the many others who have sent in frequent and 
complete announcements.  It would be great if more folks would send in 
announcements for new and updated OS/2-eCS related developments.  Otherwise 
I have to hunt things down myself, and unfortunately I miss a lot.

As to the list itself, we start the year with 595 subscribers. That is 
about 70 fewer than a year ago.  Though somewhat disappointing to see 
subscribers go, it is still quite nice to see so many people left on the 
list a full year after IBM has abandoned us completely.  Currently there 
are very few mail rejections and all are of a temporary nature.  The VOICE 
News list is currently still mirrored on the OS/2 Info Yahoo list 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/os2info/?yguid=835823 with another 143 
subscribers, as well as the OS/2 News service - http://www.os2news.com 
which is used as a news feed for some other web sites.  Hopefully we will 
see more from os2news.com in the future, though VOICE News still does not 
get any feed from os2news itself.  Hopefully that will change in 2008.

Finally a big thanks to Paul Smedley who covers list moderation for me when 
I am away.  I'd like to see a pool of moderators be formed so we could 
spread the workload around.  Let me know if you have the time and interest 
in helping out.  As always the VOICE Newsletter can use help as well, with 
writing, editing and translating.  If you can help even just a little, 
please contact us at editor@os2voice.org.  I would hate to see this 
longtime OS/2 resource meet the same fate as all the other online periodicals.

Thanks for reading and I hope you continue to find our announcements of 
interest. If not please use the unsubscribe feature on 
http://www.os2voice.org/mailinglists.php  You can use the same web page to 
change your email address if needed.


Mark



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