First of all I wish to congratulate you on your growing newsletter. Growing in subscriptions, length, depth and most of all in quality. Reading your newsletter is almost enough to be posted on the international matters that matter.

Despite all the the satisfaction I get from your newsletter, however, I do have one suggestion about the layout: Is it possible to deliver your newsletter in a more reader friendly layout, as a word document attached for instance?

OUR REPLY: Thank you for writing. We are glad you appreciate the quality of the newsletter - we work hard on it! We very consciously designed the newsletter so that it is accessible to subscribers that can read only plain text e-mail messages. The feedback from subscribers in Africa has been, by and large, very positive since it provides them with all the information they need on a weekly basis in a single e-mail. However, this stands in contrast to our subscribers in more "bandwidth-rich" countries who are accustomed to news websites and often complain about the newsletter being too long, containing too much information, and being too difficult to navigate. This tension is one we are very aware of, and we are continually on the search for solutions. We welcome input from our subscribers!