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Comments

1. At 06:12 AM on 20 Dec 2006, Belinda wrote:

   03.02!

   
   Although I know it was sent on the 19th at 12.57

   Obviously it just stayed with some friends on the wy down.

2. At 07:32 AM on 20 Dec 2006, wrote:

   Ha! mine was 2:29am, according to the header. Just in time, now I can listen again and see if it matches up with the newsletter :-)

3. At 07:59 AM on 20 Dec 2006, Perky wrote:

   02.58! This is, however, my first ever PM newsletter that's gone astray, so I'm treating it as a quirky one-off. I'm sure it will never happen again.....

   Things often do take a long time to get from London to Yorkshire, you know.

4. At 08:12 AM on 20 Dec 2006, Timothy wrote:

   3.10 ... I'd gone to bed by then. Nice to have PM for breakfast though :-)

5. At 08:34 AM on 20 Dec 2006, Vyle Hernia wrote:

   02:58

   And I thought it was all internal to this firm...

6. At 08:50 AM on 20 Dec 2006, Anne P. wrote:

   Arrived 02:55 (I did not wait up!)

   Funny thing is when I first used to subscribe, well before the days of the blog, it always arrived promptly mid-afternoon.

   Surely the newsletter problems can't be connected with the incredible, super, world-wide, almost infinite popularity of the blog?

7. At 08:50 AM on 20 Dec 2006, Chrissie the Trekkie wrote:

   Further to my whatever

   
   0258h

8. At 08:59 AM on 20 Dec 2006, stewart M wrote:

   Rolled in and fell up the stairs at 12.57pm on 19th. Any earlier??

9. At 09:02 AM on 20 Dec 2006, wrote:

   3.04 am (but the clock on my computer may be 2 minutes out if they were synchronised). Like you Eddie, I was sitting up waiting with baited breath, the postman woke me up 6 hours later & I think I'd be too tired to present PM; lucky I have you to do it for me.

10. At 09:21 AM on 20 Dec 2006, Gillian wrote:

    4:07am, also sent at 12:57. I didn't wait up. Eddie....need some tips to cure insomnia, by any chance? Or is it just the Party Season?
    Belinda,,,what were you doing with my newsletter for an hour?!

11. At 09:34 AM on 20 Dec 2006, wrote:

    03:06, and like Belinda's mine set off at 12:57.

    I was still up, after a particularly hectic evening hosting a folk club and then taking a friend home who was surviving his twenty-nineteenth birthday ... but I didn't check my emails till a more civillised hour.

    From the grubby screen and tatty corners I surmise it took a few turns around the Stringfellows dance floor before hailing a cab and commencing its journey around the country.

    Thank goodness Santa doesn't rely on email, eh!

    Fifi ;oD

12. At 09:40 AM on 20 Dec 2006, wrote:

    02:51 for me! It was like a trip down memory lane!

    Do you sleep Mr Mair?

    Mary

13. At 09:49 AM on 20 Dec 2006, gossipmistress wrote:

    02.57....and ****o usually deliver with such monotonous regularity...

    (other ISP's are available)

14. At 09:52 AM on 20 Dec 2006, wrote:

    And I've just got today's Newletter, but it's a bit on the empty side!

    Mary

15. At 09:56 AM on 20 Dec 2006, Eddie Mair wrote:

    Oh and TODAY's newsletter appears to have arrived before 10am. If we knew what we were doing we'd be dangerous...

16. At 10:12 AM on 20 Dec 2006, Stephen, Leader of STROP wrote:

    Well that newsletter arrived (according to the logs) at 3:03 am.

    Today's PM newsletter was here by 10:10am

    Clearly e-things happen more quickly when the US are still in bed

17. At 10:12 AM on 20 Dec 2006, Confused of East Sussex wrote:

    03:05 but another one came just now. Oooooh, the excitement. Really building up to Christmas nicely. Um, that IS why you're doing this????

18. At 10:14 AM on 20 Dec 2006, wrote:

    Blimey. It's 10.13am as I type this, and already Wednesday's newsletter is here!

    Alas, devoid of content relating to the programme -- but since the team doesn't even have an editorial meeting till 11am, this is understandable.

    Serious question: if the newsletter relates to the programme, but can only reliably be received after the programme, unless sent so early that it can't give information about the programme... its point is?

    My theory is the old business of 'when the USA wakes up and comes online, all traffic slows down'.

    Somewhere deep in the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ is a clunky old server someone's forgotten about, that has never been brought up to the state-of-the-art that it needs to be these days.

    And America (sorry, cousins!) is too much for it.

    There you go: Fifi's excruciatingly non-tecky explanation of the inexplicable.

    Next week, I'll be reversing Global Warming and solving the Middle East crisis.

    ;o)

19. At 10:21 AM on 20 Dec 2006, Concerned wrote:

    Out of interest, how is the mailing list handled?

    Does the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ manage its own email/messaging servers? If so, are the servers in a ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ datacentre or a third party datacentre?

    Or does a third party manage the email/messaging servers? If so, is it a bespoke solution/contract (given the size of the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ quite possibly. Siemens?) or does the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ buy a managed email/messaging service?

    Where is the bottleneck, and who's responsible for clearing it?

    I am not a telco sales rep :-)

20. At 10:31 AM on 20 Dec 2006, wrote:

    I just logged on & both newsletters arrived together. I missed yesterday's prog, I'm not sure whether it's worth taking a radio to Leeds & trying to listen to today's - you've not exactly sold it to me yet with the newsletter! Good effort to get it here so soon though. Top marks for efficiency, if not content.

    If you waited up til 2 45, then were posting at 5 34am, when exactly do you sleep? Or is there a new baby in the house? (in which case your hours would make perfect sense...

21. At 10:31 AM on 20 Dec 2006, Mo wrote:

    3.12am in Aberdeen!

    although it's very icy out there so probably best to take it easy

22. At 10:43 AM on 20 Dec 2006, davemack wrote:

    2.14am

23. At 10:57 AM on 20 Dec 2006, Judith wrote:

    Annasee (19)

    The newsletter's purpose isn't to tempt us to listen to PM, is it?

    I suppose I should pay more attention to the newsy bits of PM, but I admit I'm more interested in mentions of the blog and the vagaries of the newsletter. Nodding vigorously at the car radio helps to pass the time in my evening traffic jam.

    02:51 btw.
    

24. At 11:29 AM on 20 Dec 2006, Belinda wrote:

    Gillian (10): I gave the newsletter a glass of sherry and a mince-pie of course! No wonder it deviated on the route to yours...

25. At 11:34 AM on 20 Dec 2006, wrote:

    Season's Greetings!
    ed
    

26. At 11:35 AM on 20 Dec 2006, admin annie wrote:

    3.02 here. Mo it obviously comes to Orkney BEFORE making its way back to Aberdeen! No ice here though, I am tempted to go nanananana, but as I like Aberdeen I won't.

    why are you going to Leeds Annasee. Is it for a concert in the Town Hall? We used to go to those sometimes but generally only when Paul Whelan and/or the Leeds Festival Chorus was singing.

    We're glad to have left the place really.

27. At 12:16 PM on 20 Dec 2006, Dr Hackenbush wrote:

    02:57 (and 10:00).

28. At 12:53 PM on 20 Dec 2006, wrote:

    brrr, hello my fellow froggers... I've just been outside and it's still below zero here in South Oxon, with 1/4" of ice on the surface of the water butt. Plus, it's still foggy. Is it me, or have we jumped from Autumn last week to mid-winter overnight?

    I'm off to find something warming on the beach...

29. At 01:02 PM on 20 Dec 2006, Aperitif wrote:

    03.03 and 10.06

    I realise that today's line thus:
    "See you in your inbox at 0500?"
    was merely a tease, but, even so, I enjoyed it.
    

30. At 01:37 PM on 20 Dec 2006, Aperitif wrote:

    Fearless, Northumberland is sunny and fairly warm -- no frost/ice at all on the car this morning, unlike yesterday, when it was positively arctic.

31. At 02:05 PM on 20 Dec 2006, Belinda wrote:

    Norfolk is cold, ground frosted throughout the day and very foggy, and likely to stay like this for the rest of the week. At least winter has made a late entrance though, which has shocked all the little shoots of next year's crop.

32. At 02:17 PM on 20 Dec 2006, wrote:

    Appy & Ff,

    The East must have the best of it for once. Froggy and cold here. Good weather for splitting logs.

    Gotta have enough ready to keep the Yule fires burning. See y'all at five when it's too dark to split any more.

    xx
    ed

    Appy, are you near the haunts of Sir Edward Grey? Falloden? A great Edwardian Gent.
    

33. At 02:31 PM on 20 Dec 2006, Belinda wrote:

    Ed, can you do me some firewood as well?

34. At 02:53 PM on 20 Dec 2006, Peter wrote:

    Arrived at 3.04 - must have been the fog across the New Forest that hampered its progress to Poole.

35. At 02:55 PM on 20 Dec 2006, Frances O wrote:

    Eric, do you *ever* sleep?

    Got mine today, nice and early. I like the loose, casual feel to it, the acceptance that some news will happen at you by 1630 whether you like it or not.

    I can tell you what the weather will be for my area: fog. Brrrr.

36. At 03:03 PM on 20 Dec 2006, Dr Hackenbush wrote:

    Ed, I’m somewhere near the inland limits of East Anglia, and we certainly don’t have the best of it.

37. At 03:17 PM on 20 Dec 2006, gossipmistress wrote:

    Fifi (18) Re the Newsletter - I agree that I would rather get a Newsletter with some content about the programme in it (today's was a bit of a damp squib - sorry!) even if it's sometimes late.
    I don't mind a bit of erratic delivery!

    But then I often only get to see it after the show, and only get to hear the show on 'Listen Again' so I'm probably not typical.

    (I imagine the basement at the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ full of those vacuum tube systems they have for the cash at supermarkets, with pods flying around containing the newsletter. Occasionally one flies off and escapes to Orkney, or Norfolk, or Aberdeen......)

38. At 03:45 PM on 20 Dec 2006, wrote:

    Sure thing, Belinda, but it's gotta be virtual, like the cup of hot chocolate I'll accept in return. Just taking a breather, and back for the last of the daylight. Good dry ashwood, the best, and easy split as well.
    xx
    ed

39. At 03:56 PM on 20 Dec 2006, Belinda wrote:

    I like the vaccuum pod idea, gm (37) although I firmly believe that the newsletter is delivered by a group* of Oomplaloompas, who were laid off when Cadbury's took over Willy Wonka's chocolate factory.

    (*a tribe? a gaggle?)

40. At 03:56 PM on 20 Dec 2006, Belinda wrote:

    I like the vaccuum pod idea, gm (37) although I firmly believe that the newsletter is delivered by a group* of Oomplaloompas, who were laid off when Cadbury's took over Willy Wonka's chocolate factory.

    (*a tribe? a gaggle?)

41. At 04:10 PM on 20 Dec 2006, Belinda wrote:

    Ed, do you want a naughty hot chocolate with cream, chcocolate and mashmallows?

    I love the smell of ashwood.

42. At 04:57 PM on 20 Dec 2006, wrote:

    Yes please, belinda, and a drop of whisky wouldn't go amiss....

    Do you want a barrow load brought indoors as well?
    xx
    ed

43. At 05:02 PM on 20 Dec 2006, Aperitif wrote:

    Ed (32), mercifully, no. Now Charles, Earl Grey on the other hand...

44. At 05:10 PM on 20 Dec 2006, wrote:

    I would be interested to know what the objective of the Newsletter actually is.

    ? encourage interaction with the programme?

    ? an entree to the blog, for yet more interaction?

    ? an additional method of finding out what existing listeners want out of the programme?

    ? something the management gurus said we must have, with no real reason why?

    Eddie, may we know please? If it's a secret, perhaps you could email me privately ... I have a degree in this sort of tommyrot, and might even be able to help!

    Yours 'umbly,

    Fifi :o)

45. At 05:48 PM on 20 Dec 2006, gossipmistress wrote:

    Belinda (40) or Oompaloompallamas??

46. At 09:29 PM on 20 Dec 2006, Molly wrote:

    Ed I (46)-strangely enough I was wondering,earlier today as I posted my umpteenth comment,whether I'm becoming 'addicted' to the blog.
    It does feel like my 'comfort zone'
    at the moment-and I do love reading the comments of you clever ones-that can't be bad,can it?
    Where's my Blankey?

    Molly
    (only joking about Blankey) ,

47. At 10:36 PM on 20 Dec 2006, wrote:

    Did anyone follow the link ? and look at the list of maladies? Good for a guffaw.
    xx
    ed

48. At 11:01 PM on 20 Dec 2006, valery p (Tumbleflump Holly-Hippoface) wrote:

    South-east Scotland, which has been sunny, blue-skied and frosty today (though sadly I had to travel to central Scotland which was grey, dank and chilling to the bone for v welcome Work Christmas Lunch), received the newsletters at 2.48 then 9.49. However I have to report a strange sort of goings-on from Thinking Allowed - the previously reliable one - I got theirs twice this afternoon, once at 17.08 and again at 18.02. The observant will notice that both were received post-programme, whatever PM is doing is catching!!!

49. At 11:39 PM on 20 Dec 2006, wrote:

    Admin Annie (26) I'm playing for a ballet season in Leeds. 2nd week of it now.Brain has long since turned to fruit mincemeat. Player next to me is doing killer sudoku while playing - I've been trying to complete a quiz about fish but have run out of fish types. The sudoku fiend mentioned yesterday that he remembered Eddie when he was on "Good Morning Scotland" (have I got the name right?) as this person works a lot at the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ there. Small world, but he was unable to come up with any damaging allegations or gossip about Eddie, so that was a wasted conversation...

    Did you know Paul Whelan is from NZ? I remember playing for him the day he won a big ("the" big) singing competition in NZ about 17 years ago. I keep reminding him of that every time I see him. Makes me feel about 100 years old. He's got an incredible voice, I think.

50. At 12:48 AM on 21 Dec 2006, admin annie wrote:

    Annasee I am so jealous - you talk to Paul Whelan? I know we witter on about good loooking men in a non serioous way over on the beach but I would seriously love to talk to Paul Whelan. I think he's briliant, great voice, great stage presence and the year he was in Cardiff Singer of the World he was robbed. (Actually it was fairly close, but I still think he should have edged it). We don't rate tenors much in this household, we're baritone fans.

    So now you talk to PW, your brother has llamas and he lives in NZ giving you the perfect excuse to visit. I don't know whether to suck up to you in case some of these benefits will rub off on me, or just flounce out now before I discover anything else about your life that makes me green! :-)