A Word of Praise for the Classrooms

[Renata L.]

John, just wanted to let you know the newsletter arrived this evening with a time-stamp of 8:32 pm. It was the second sending of the newsletter because it was preceded by your note saying,

"Oops, We recently switched over to a new email marketing system, and unfortunately there was an error with the system this morning. It is possible that you were sent this email already. If so, we apologize for the inconvenience. The error has since been corrected and this won't happen again."

Very nice, clean format. Well done!

[John A.]

We found that there was a timing problem with the email. We were updating it while the system thought it was sending it. Therefore, more than 1/2 of you did not get the email on the first try. We were not absolutely sure who got it and who didn't, so we resent it to anyone that had not opened it yet. That is why the Oops notice.

Two people have said that they thought it was an ad. We may have to add "Newsletter" to the heading. We were trying to keep it really clean, but "Newsletter" will make it clearer. Or we will add "Newsletter" to the Subject line.

I hope you like the cleaner look.

[E.M. T.]

...Good to know it's the newsletter !

[Robin G.]

Well, it's 10:30 pm Mountain Time (where I live), and the newsletter has still not come through for me—either version. After seeing Rita's note, I checked, but I'm still listed as subscribed to the newsletter. I also checked my spam folder, but it's not there, either. I'll check again in the morning. Maybe the ether is just slow tonight ...

[Catherine S.]

It is 12:30am here, and I have not received the newsletter yet. I will check again in the morning.

[Norma H.]

It's Saturday 9.30 am here and I have not received a Newsletter since Tuesday. It's not in the spam folder and I'm subsribed to the Newsletter.

[Norma H.]

I haven't received the Friday newsletter, I checked that I am subscribed, and it hasn't gone to spam either working on windows 8

[Lois B.]

Still no Weekend Fun in my mailbox or spam folder. I am subscribed. I use MacBook Pro.

[Beverly C.]

Still not here for me, John. Thanks for checking on us!

[Nancy R.]

Still no newsletter here, either. Not in regular mail or spam folder and I am subscribed.

I had a problem several months ago where I kept getting unsubscribed and also kept getting my forum flags cleared out so I didn't have any record of what forum messages I had read. Bob the technical guy didn't know what was happening, but it did stop after 3 or 4 rounds. So I think there's a subtle bug somewhere in the system.

[Alex A.]

For those who missed the morning send - did you finally get one last night ....? We found out what the problem was and did a second send.

[Beverly C.]

Sorry, Alex, but I didn't receive the second send. I'm keeping an eye out for it though!!

[wendy w.]

Thank you mine arrived 5 mins ago

[Deborah W.]

I haven't received the newsletter yet but look forward to seeing the new format. TQS is my go to place on the web. Love it.

[Deborah W.]

Well I added a few thoughts earlier and hit submit but I don't see it here. I just added that I liked the new airy look of the newsletter and thought that the addition of "newsletter" in the subject line would help as I also thought it was an ad when I first saw it.