Re: The C++ Alliance Monthly Newsletter – January 2026
On Wed, Feb 4, 2026 at 5:43 PM Mark Cooper via Boost <boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:
Attached is our first C++ Alliance newsletter.
Thanks. I suggest that in the future you host it on your web-site, and offer pure-web alternatives instead of PDF only. I'm surprised the ML even allows 2MB attachments, to be honest. Announcing it here is more than fine. Embedding it into an email distributed to hundreds, not so much. My $0.02. --DD
On Thu, Feb 5, 2026, at 9:58 AM, Dominique Devienne via Boost wrote:
Thanks. I suggest that in the future you host it on your web-site, and offer pure-web alternatives instead of PDF only. I'm surprised the ML even allows 2MB attachments, to be honest.
+1, besides it really doesn't need to be 2MB. The following oneliner made it 606K for me: gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/ebook -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=out.pdf in.pdf
it really doesn't need to be 2MB.
Boost release reports are shared from a web link: https://downloads.cppalliance.org/reports/boost_1_90_0_release_report.pdf I discussed with Mark yesterday - the newsletters can follow a similar technique.
On Thu, Feb 5, 2026 at 2:57 PM Sam Darwin via Boost <boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:
Boost release reports are shared from a web link: https://downloads.cppalliance.org/reports/boost_1_90_0_release_report.pdf
[...] the newsletters can follow a similar technique
Sounds good, thanks Sam. I suggest a newsletter landing page with links to all current and past newletters. Instead of just a listing like https://downloads.cppalliance.org/reports/ provides. With perhaps RSS for those (unlike me, since Google Reader's demise) still using it. --DD PS: I don't X, so new issues announced on the ML is what I prefer, FWIW.
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