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<p dir="auto">A few hours ago, Daniel Mann wrote:</p>
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<p dir="auto">Yes, they could definitely be effective promoters for MailMate. Each has led me to learn and try new tools, and purchase software, based on their recommendations and example usage. So have Merlin Mann, Dan Benjamin, Shawn Blanc, Ben Brooks, David Sparks, Katie Floyd, Marco Arment, John Siracusa, and Federico Viticci. All do (or once did) participate in the 5by5 community.</p>
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<p dir="auto">I read all of these people religiously and seriously consider spending the time and effort to use nearly any relevant software or technique that they espouse — and I know I’m hardly alone. (I knew most of them did web videos, but I’ve never taken the time to watch any of them, since reading is so very much faster.)</p>
<p dir="auto">Another person to approach would of course be John Gruber, the <a href="http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/">Father of Markdown</a>, who of course has a <em>huge</em> audience with Daring Fireball. He <a href="http://daringfireball.net/2007/08/rethinking_email">used Mailsmith</a> and advocated for it for nearly a decade — leaving it (as so many of us did) because he needed IMAP. I suspect he’d be intrigued by MailMate, and even if he wasn’t, Daring Fireball would seem to me to be a perfect place to advertise.</p>
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<p dir="auto">I could see Brett and Dr. Drang (and possibly others in the above mentioned group) wanting the ability to specify a markdown processor. Brett Terpstra might like MultiMarkdown, while Dr. Drang might want to use his own customized version. (I'm not trying to speak for them, just speculating based on what I've read and heard from/about each in following their work.)</p>
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<p dir="auto">And Gruber would probably want Markdown 1.0.1. :-)</p>
<p dir="auto">Finally, make sure to keep Ric Ford at <a href="http://macintouch.com">Macintouch</a> apprised of new releases of MailMate and of crowd-funding status. He still has a large and faithful old-school following, and his <em>raison d’être</em> is to inform Mac users about new apps and software updates.</p>
<p dir="auto">— Erik</p>
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