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Newsletter (Anyone remember DNTK?)

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  • #52
    delly
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 7,730 Mod ✭✭✭✭delly


    I go straight to the /vbulletin page, so i wouldn't see anything on the main page, just so you know. Others may do the same

    About 2 weeks or so ago DeV had a sticky on the top of every forum asking us to take part in the ireland offline Q&A, i found that pretty useful in terms of bringing my atention to something currently active


  • #53
    smoke.me.a.kipper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,626 ✭✭✭smoke.me.a.kipper


    DeVore wrote:
    Actually they did. You're right.

    A couple of people objected, most were enthusiastic. Why I got bogged down arguing, looking for 100% agreement I dont know. If you dont want a newsletter, turn off your Admin Email option now. It will arrive by PM.


    DeV.
    horray!!


  • #54
    SantaHoe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,488 ✭✭✭SantaHoe


    DeVore wrote:
    That seems dumb and pointless.
    Such is life. ;)


  • #55
    po0k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,817 ✭✭✭✭po0k


    resurrection.jpg


    I enjoyed reading DNTK back in the day :)

    Lost all my old copies of it.


    Speaking of which, PsycoBabble.


  • #56
    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    wow... Psychobabble... I still have my old copies of that and sometimes reread my writing (purely for the toecurling clumsyness of my language back then!). 5 years from now I'll be looking back at my journal on Boards in much the same way! :)

    DeV.


  • #57
    Raphael
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,880 ✭✭✭Raphael


    Or
    zombify.jpg
    even...


  • #58
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,580 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Look, it's Bubbles, high priest of resurrection.
    SyxPak wrote:
    resurrection.jpg


  • #59
    Mercury_Tilt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,500 ✭✭✭Mercury_Tilt


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  • #60
    Agent Smith
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 21,504 Mod ✭✭✭✭Agent Smith


    what is/was DNTK? thats what i want to know...



    please!


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  • #61
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,580 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    agent smith wrote:
    what is/was DNTK? thats what i want to know... please!
    You don't need to know, so I'm not telling you.


  • #62
    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    There is a famous IT/sociopolitical newsletter called "Need To Know" or NTK for short which I've read for years. Its really good but when I came to write my newsletter I realised I wouldnt really be able to (or interested in) writing anything that could match it. I wanted to write a more "throw away" bit of internet bubblegum so to speak. So I called it "Dont Need To Know" (DNTK) as there was rarely anything in it that people desperately needed to be told :)
    It was purely for a bit of a laugh.

    Now, it faltered when I got extremely busy with Spin but I really enjoyed writing it and from feedback people seemed to enjoy reading it. Since it came out whenever I got my finger out it wasnt exactly deluging the subscribers.

    Ironically Bubbles little spate of unsolicited PM's recently made me think about resurrecting it. Bubbles was out of line because he didnt qualify his list of people at all but rather decided FOR you if you were getting it or not. Control wasnt in your hands.

    If I can make an option that says "send me DNTK" I will do so, if its non-trivial, I'll use the existing option and explain how it can be altered.

    DeV.


  • #63
    irishgeo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,604 ✭✭✭irishgeo


    this is a great idea.


  • #64
    Agent Smith
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 21,504 Mod ✭✭✭✭Agent Smith


    now i know, i have no objections!


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