No, that allows you to receive emails from other posters or OCF, it has nothing to do with the newsletter.

You are already signed up for the newsletter and that is why it wouldn't let your email address sign up for it again. So in Jan when we send the first one out, you will get it. There were designs to do this for several years, and we collected lots of addresses, but we were always behind the timeline to get one actually produced that was worthwhile.

Now that we have some help in the office, it will become a regular thing. But the web world has changed greatly since we first started collecting addresses of people that wanted it to come to them. If we sent out 10,000 emails with our newsletter in it, to people, and a bunch of them forgot that they had asked for this and complained to their ISP, we would get banned from those kind of mailings as a spammer. So we adopted this new op in or op out form that makes us able to do this in a spam crazy world, without making people unhappy, or getting our ISP banned by some large organization like Yahoo, AOL etc.