V8 Newsletter

[James Jewell <m1garand@speakeasy.net>]

John,
   Just got back from a week of  military travel.  About three weeks 
ago, my main hard drive crashed and I lost just about everything, 
including e-mails.  I have a backup drive that is supposed to do a 
nightly backup at 3:00 am, but it stopped doing it in April, for some 
unknown reason (Perhaps a Microsoft "feature" which I discovered when 
trying to restore everything) and even the April backup was partially 
corrupted.  I was able to restore the list of all subscribers names and 
numbers/addresses for mailing labels, but not the Quicken Customer 
Database that I was using to track back-orders and expiration dates.
   May issue went out extremely late on July 1st (very sorry, I'm 
traveling allot for Uncle Sam, and working on another Masters degree and 
renovating a house (haven't touched my own MG this year or last), but 
apparently about a dozen people or so didn't receive it.  As I received 
e-mails or phone calls in July, I started flagging names in the database 
to send out replacement issues as well as attempting to discern why 
certain mailing labels didn't get printed and others did (similar thing 
happened a few issues back, but apparently I was unsuccessful at fixing 
it).  Then the drive crashed, and I sent out as many issues as I could 
from memory after a partial drive restore, but clearly I didn't get 
every one.  My next step was (and is) to call all 200 folks on the old 
label list and find out what back issues are owed/actions pending and 
reconstitute the Quicken database.
So, please accept my apologies and remind me of what you paid for, as 
well as verifying you mailing address and contact info.  I take full 
responsibility for the delays.  I'll make every effort to get issues or 
canceled checks out in the next two business days (presuming I hear from 
you all soon enough)

V/R
James Jewell
Editor and Janitor

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