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Hello,

In order to provide more interesting information about each user that contributes to the PHP Classes site, two more fields were added experimentally in the user options: country and home page.
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Hello,

Please excuse me if you already received this message yesterday. It was mostly meant to contributing authors like you, but since many of you preferred to not receive site announcements like this one, I am remailing this now just to the site contributors because I think it is important for you to be aware of these improvements meant to help authors to spread their work in the site. So here follows the original announcement again.
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Hello,

As it was announced last month, the PHP Classes site is displaying paid banners in order to generate some income to help keep the site open by letting me continue work on developing and maintaining the site at full time.

The site now displays banners also in the alerts and newsletter messages like this to increase the income. However, the additional income that is generated is still not enough to justify keep working on the site at full time.
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Hello,

2002 was a productive year in the PHP Classes site. Despite many enhancements have been developed, many more are still to be done despite I am dedicating full time to the site.

First I would like to mention some of the latest developments that either I was not able to announce or they are not yet visible.
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Hello,

It has been a while since I released the survey about the interest on having additional valued services available to paid subscribers. The survey went very well as a significant number of users expressed immediate interest at least on some of the proposed services.
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Hello,

Since the number of classes of overlapping purposes is raising and the site users have been requesting so they can figure in advance if a class is worth downloading, some time soon I will be implementing a system that will let the users rate the classes that you provided in several aspects: utility, documentation, examples scripts and sample output. Other aspects may be considered later but these will be the most important that I will support.
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Hello,

Thank you to the hundreds of users that reported the problem in survey form. It as a minor bug in form field page allocation that was exposed due to last minute changes in page order resorting. Since it was only visible to people filling the forms for the first time (all of you), it escaped my tests.

The problem is fixed now. I would like to apologise for the inconvinience and having to mail you again.
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Hello,

I am writing you because this is a very critical moment for the future of the site for which I would greatly appreciate you time and attention.
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Hello,

Finally I implemented something that I have been willing to have for a long time. I have just include in the PHP Classes site newsletter the head lines of the latest PHP news that were released in several other sites.

So, now everybody subscribed to the site newsletter can be kept up to date with the latest news in the PHP world without having to keep polling many sites to know if any interesting news were released.
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Hello,

Finally I have started an initiative that is meant to provide recognition to all users that contribute to the growth of the site community, including those that have not contributed with any classes.

After looking at the site statistics, I came to the conclusion that there is a steady rate of one new contributor for every 250 new subscribers. So I realized that if there is a way to increase the rate of new subscribers, eventually more and better new class contributions would be made.
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