guiser said:

I don't know about you all, but I prefer the forum drama to a cleaned and polished news letter :-p

Yeah, the newsletter wasn't meant for everyone - trust me. But neither are the forums if you think about it. Some people are better suited to social interaction than others.

Plus, hopefully, it'll cut down (not extinguish) a lot of questions from new people about where to get it, what version is out, how close are the others, etc. Once the newsletter gets sent out on the 1st, I'll post in here with a screenshot, link, whatever - so that everyone gets a chance to see it. That'll also help people find it that pop into the thread and don't read the first page, as so many of them do at times.