Greetings I have been waiting for other customers to join the mailing list before I sent out this first message, but what the heck here goes. The purpose of this message is to test out the changes I made to the mailing list and for you to give me feedback on the format of the mailing list. Currently I have advertised the existence of the list to only customers who have bought an FTC license. For now, I want to keep the list size relatively small so I can focus on your needs as beta testers of the FTC and thus improve the FTC itself. My plan is to officially advertise the existence of the mailing list when I release beta 14. After beta 14 the FTC will go into final candidate status as I jump into writing the documentation full time. One of the purposes of this mailing list is for you guys to share your expertise with the FTC with others on the list. Also I would like to see discussions on how I can improve the FTC. You can also report bugs here instead of sending email to me directly since I am intently reading the list. Reporting bugs here on the list will be helpful to others since it will make everyone aware of the bug and eliminate duplicate effort of reporting the bug. Another purpose of this list is to leverage my time more effectively by sharing my solutions to your problems with every one. I have privately answered quite a few questions along the way that may have been useful to others. So from now on, I will try to answer your questions on the mailing list and thus share the knowledge. FYI, I have been steadily working on preview 12 and I should have it posted fairly soon. I am starting to get excited about the state of development of the FTC since it is now has all the features in place and I am only working on bug fixes. In other words, the FTC is feature complete and there is light at the end of the tunnel. Now I just need all get all those fancy features to play nicely together! From now on, I will post preview update notices on the mailing list instead of using my mass mailing program. Note, if you need a mass mailing program, I have been using "MaxBulk Mailer" which I saw in RBDeveloper magazine. It is a pretty useful program and I give it a solid recommendation. In my search for a mailing list provider, www.FreeLists.org seemed to be the best and it is free and has all bells an whitsles. If you need to start a mailing list, check out www.FreeLists.org. A huge step up from yahoo groups or some other solution. So tell me how you like FreeLists.org stuff if you have an opinion. Also, feel free to start some unending off topic discussion just like on the NUG...just kidding. ;-) ---- FTC Website: www.truenorthsoftware.com/Realbasic/FormattedText.html Set List Options (digest and vacation modes): www.freelists.org/list/ftcdev List Archive: www.freelists.org/archives/ftcdev Unsubscribe: Send email to ftcdev-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the subject field.