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A few important fixes to this version. At least the source references should for the most part be working, and I'm hoping that all the issues reported to me by users of Behold are now fixed. If not, please let me know and I'll address them first. The complete list of changes in this version is on the Behold ...

The last beta release was not a good beta. I don't mean that in terms of what I added to it. I've made a lot of fixes and improvements. But it's not a good beta because I added a bad bug. It seems that all the Source references don't display correctly any more. I hadn't noticed that before I released it. I ...

Finally, and it's taken too long to get this one out, a new beta of Behold. Please upgrade if you are using an older version. This one fixes up a lot of niggly things, and I think the the virtualization of the Everything Report is finally rock-solid. I can't seem to break it any more. Just about every abend ...

I've wanted to release this beta version for some time now. It's been over 2 months and that's too long between betas. This version is so much better than the previous in many ways: No memory leaks, logfile (not everything in it yet but its mostly there) and separation of program loading from just reorganizing. ...

When I cleaned up the memory leaks, I thought I had fixed much of Behold's memory handling. But then I started finalizing the log file (the last thing before the next beta release) by adding a memory reporting line and I was a little surprised at what still seemed like too much memory use. It went back again ...

With the memory leaks all cleaned up, I went to work on splitting the processing into to parts: Loading the data and organizing the people to produce the Everything Reports. That's now done and will be included in the next beta release. So whenever you Instant Organize, reorganize, or change families you're ...

I've been looping back on myself a bit. I said in my last blog post that I'll send out the newsletter. But then I decided to wait until the next Beta release. The next beta release will include the log file, elimination of memory leaks, and a new location for the sample files in the user's AppData directory ...

A good way to set up an e-mail newsletter is to use html formatting. Html is formatting to look more like web pages and you can make a very nicely designed newsletter with it. The unfortunate problem with that is many people turn it off or have it turned off, sometimes for security issues. When html e-mail ...

Two and a half weeks it took. But finally, I've got a decent Newsletter system set up that should work. I cancelled Dewahost (they were nice about it - but I still wonder why they never responded to my queries) and signed up with LuxSci's High Volume SMTP service. Then I went about trying to set up some ...

After I got phplist up and working, and I cleaned my old survey respondents email addresses up, I purchased a Dewahost’s SMTP service package to send the mail. They were recommended by Plimus (who processes Behold purchases for me) and do mailing lists for Plimus, so I assumed that was a good enough reference ...