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Welcome to the Oddblog, where we prattle on incessantly about bug fixes, feature additions and all things Oddpost. Please note that if there are no announcements on a given day, it does in fact mean we were out blowing your subscriber dollars on handcrafted doilies and pink champagne.
Is there any faster buzzkill than starting to drag a message into a folder, only to find that the target folder is scrolled out of view, or hidden beneath another folder? No there is not, at least not when the folders pane fails to automatically scroll when you near its edges or automatically pop open folders when you hover over them. Situ-ation rrrrectified. And speaking of interface subtleties emblematic of the ceaseless attention to detail here at Oddpost, the name of the selected folder or feed is now displayed above the message table. Several folks felt the highlight in the folders pane was too subtle an indicator of the current folder. If you were not one of these folks, you can just click the close box to the right of the folder name, or uncheck View > Header Bar.
6:05:08 PM 
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A few little things worth mentioning: We fixed the bug where some hyperlinks incorrectly included a ">" character at the end. We eliminated our dependence on the browser's Dictionary object, which is built right into IE but was somehow disappearing from a few subscribers' systems. We improved our support for folders and attachments with international (non-ascii) filenames. We moved our office – note the new address. We received many more unsolicited submissions of pet photos. We automated the password reminder system (click on "Lost Password?" on the main page and remember to keep an alternate address on file under File > Password Management). Finally, the main page now has a link to a system status page so that we don't have to crap up the blog with minute by minute reports of server hiccups and worm outbreaks.
6:04:36 PM
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The global village idiots continue to toss their digital sabots our way and we continue to rue every moment spent coding against them that we'd rather spend coding for you. But, you know, sometimes that's the way it is, and the result is that there's now a bandwidth limit on trial accounts and a human verification step during new account signup.
6:01:29 PM
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Not only will you no longer be seeing a little red x where there should have been a side-splitting Bush-as-orangutan photo from that Mac-owning hippie freak you call a stepbrother, you'll also no longer have to download the vast majority of pics sent your way, for image attachments now appear right. in. the message. pane. Oh yeah!
6:00:32 PM
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In this particular case the brevity of the post serves as counterpoint to the enormity of the feature: drafts. Superfluous instructions right here.
5:59:46 PM
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As you've surely already guessed, suggestions sent to features@oddpost.com are jotted onto a slip of paper, baked into a fortune cookie and tossed into an official Franklin Mint pewter cracker barrel cast to resemble the head of Billy Carter. Once a week, following General Tso's honorable discharge, we circle up round the lunch captain, who reaches into Billy's cranium, pulls out a cookie, closes his eyes, spins a few times, then wings it, invariably striking an engineer square in the forehead, drawing just a trickle of blood and breaking the cookie wide open. Recently this task assignment ritual directed our Robbie thusly: FILTERS 20 19 32 88 00 [IN BED --ed]. Though only nine numbers off from that day's Super Lotto Plus Mega Combinate, a fortuitous occurrence nonetheless, for FILTERS was our second most requested feature, right behind Opera support in bed. We therefore expect a tidal wave of good cheer from all those who lay eyes upon the scrumtralescence found within File > Edit Mail Filters.
5:58:11 PM
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Well drop your linen and start your grinnin cuz we got a whooole lotta sunshine to blow your way. Those aforementioned backend improvements are certainly taking a spell longer than anticipated, but we've been busy busy bees in the meantime. Read on!
5:57:10 PM
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