Vodafone's decision to phase out its email service has got me thinking about Fryday. And I, too, have made a decision.
This is to be the last Fryday in an email format. Fryday as an e-letter has been going a long time. I started it in 1995, which was not long after the advent of the internet in New Zealand. It may even possibly be among the longest-lasting NZ e-letter still going.
But no more.
I am not going to take it over to a new domain, because of Vodafone’s decision. I have also this week lost a few names from the email distribution list and it is not now worth searching and retrieving them.
However, Fryday will continue. It has for some time been replicated as a blog and that will continue at this web address: https://frydaysblog.blogspot.co.nz/
If you want to “follow” Fryday, simply go to that site and click “follow by email” at the base of the page. You will then be notified of all new postings. Notifications are also made on various Facebook pages I run.
So, that’s it. No more e-letters. It’s generally been fun. It started as a vicious roast of a Glen Innes panel beater, but I hoped I have injected more humour than vitriol since. The single most popular post was on, of all things, sea monkeys. But you have also been very kind in telling me you like Whetu, George W. Bush’s Letters to God and the Dear Michelle series. I have moved on from the latter, as circumstances dictated. But Whetu will return and there is much more to come—just in a different format.
I am told that there is to be a scheduled power cut in 30 minutes, and no internet coverage.
Symbolic really—I have to go.
See you on the blog, I hope.
And, thanks.
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