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Congratulations on the new website. It is very informative, easy to use and a blessing for those of us new to the vegan/vegetarian lifestyle. While reading through the archived newsletters though, I did find that the PDF links to the 2005 Newsletter's do not work and instead produce and error message "404". On a side note, it was a genuine pleasure meeting you at the Vegsource Expo this year. Thank you for bringing the truth to us Dr. McDougall.

I don't know if anything was done since you posted but the 2005 newsletters come up for me from this link. but they aren't in pdf format, it's htm.
http://drmcdougall.com/newsletter/archive.html

Thank you Donna for your input. I too have no problem accessing the HTML version of the newsletters for 2005. The problem is with the PDF links. The PDF format allows for much better printed copy of the articles I wanted saved (to share with friends and family). All of the newsletter archives have good links to the PDF versions with the exception of the 2005 year set. I did notice that the earlier newsletters were hosted by Neal Hedrickson. It is possible that the non-working links flag file content not currently on his servers.
Has anyone saved the 2005 set of PDF newsletters that they would be willing to share? If so, would you be so kind as to forward them to me at:
jaxplace2@adelphi.net Thank you....Jack

Can you be more specific with problem issues. I have found none.

John McDougall, MD

the links work fine for me with acrabat 7.08. I'm emailing them to you.

but the mail wouldn't go through to the address you gave.

Greetings all,
I sent a message to Neal Hendrickson about the problem. He has resolved the PDF access issue for the 2005 series of Newletters. A copy of my email to him follows:

-----Original Message-----
From: jaxplace2@adelphia.net [mailto:jaxplace2@adelphia.net]
Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2006 10:12 AM
To: nealh@hotmail.com
Subject: www.nealhendrickson.com e-Newsletter Service

Hi Neal,
I was probing through the newsletter archives at http://www.drmcdougall.com and discovered that none of the monthly PDF links work for the 2005 year. I know that your company had been enlisted for the earlier newsletters and just thought that you might like to know. By the way, you do very nice work! I also sent an email out to the McDougall website with the same info. Thank you...Jack Etheridge


Date: Sunday, November 19, 2006 1:45 PM
From: Neal Hendrickson <nealh> Add to Addresses
To: jaxplace2@adelphia.net Add to Addresses
Subject: RE: www.nealhendrickson.com e-Newsletter Service
Size: 5 KB
Thanks for the heads up Jack,
I'll get on it immediately. Hope all is going well for you.

Aloha,
Neal Hendrickson
808 551-4332
nealh@hotmail.com - primary e-mail
nealh@nealhendrickson.com - secondary e-mail

Hello all,
Just thought that I'd post additional follow up one last time:

---- Neal Hendrickson <nealh> wrote:
> Hi Jack,
> All 2005 pdf links are working now.
> Thanks, Neal Hendrickson

> 808 551-4332
> nealh@hotmail.com - primary e-mail
> nealh@nealhendrickson.com - secondary e-mail
=====================================

Date: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 9:23 AM
From: jaxplace2@adelphia.net
To: Neal Hendrickson <nealh> Add to Addresses
Subject: RE: www.nealhendrickson.com e-Newsletter Service
Size: 1 KB

Great Job Neal!
Just one more link to fix and that is the Dec newsletter for 2004
http://www.drmcdougall.com/misc/pdf/PDFMc041200NL.PDF All other PDF links work properly. Thank you....Jack

I have always had problems with several of the links on Dr. McDougall's website, at VegSource, and even here on the new message board there are some links I cannot open.

The solution for me is I MUST DISABLE my Popup Blocker to open links and to avoid the error messages.

Greetings all,
Got feedback from Neal on the last fix. All PDF links in the archived newsletter area should be working in less than 24 hours:

Date: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 7:11 PM
From: Neal Hendrickson <nealh> Add to Addresses
To: jaxplace2@adelphia.net Add to Addresses
Subject: RE: www.nealhendrickson.com e-Newsletter Service

Hi Jack,
I'll work on that one over the next 24 hours.
Thanks,

Neal Hendrickson
808 551-4332
nealh@hotmail.com - primary e-mail
nealh@nealhendrickson.com - secondary e-mail