If you use the popular and free e-mail service Gmail by Google, you may be missing a LOT. Gmail is a great service, no doubt. We use it often and find it to have great features, massive storage ability, broad and well-developed searching features (of course!), and the ability to send large (up to 20MB) attachments. There is much to love about Gmail but there is one thing that we are not a big fan of, and that is that Gmail automatically truncates, clips or shortens some e-mails -- that means you will not necessarily see all of the content of an e-mail!

According to Gmail, this is "to ensure that messages load quickly". This "feature" is not loved by many Gmail users, however. We checked the Gmail message boards and found several complaints about this. If you are a subscriber to Grand Bahama Info or Nassau Info newsletters, and you use Gmail as your e-mail service, you are likely missing vital parts of those newsletters -- entire sections and photos may not be showing up!

Sometimes you have to see the good news in the bad news. Last week Thursday we received an urgent message that BahamaIslandsInfo.com was "down" and that an ominous message was showing. Of course, hearing that your web site is non-operational will cause any webmaster's heart to skip a beat or two. We scrambled to find out what was going on and how it could be remedied.

It turned out that an "exceeded bandwidth" message was being displayed. You see, a certain volume of traffic is allocated for a web site's server for each calendar month. This amount is determined by how many visitors a web site expects and what kind of (or, how much) content is expected to be delivered for that web site.

When BahamaIslandsInfo.com was first launched just six weeks ago we allocated 5GB (that's five billion characters) of traffic for the web server computer. That amount was exceeded in the first three weeks and had to be increased to 15GB -- 300% more. Less than three weeks later that amount was exceeded! So last weekend we increased our monthly bandwidth allocation to 30GB -- a 600% increase since its start.

Of course, this is all because of the tremendous success that BahamaIslandsInfo.com has become in just a few weeks. With hundreds of unique visitors every day, prominent search engine placement, an ever-growing networking of cross links from other web sites, and a surging number of loyal visitors from around the world, BahamaIslandsInfo.com is becoming one of the premiere online destinations for news, information and more about the Bahamas.

We hope that you are enjoying BahamaIslandsInfo.com as much as we enjoy bringing it to you! We are always open to your comments and suggestions, and would love to have your feedback on how we can improve BahamaIslandsInfo.com to meet your needs. We invite you to head over to Da Dilly Tree and leave your comments in the BahamaIslandsInfo.com section, or write to us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

- The BahamaIslandsInfo.com Team

Subscribers of Grand Bahama Info Newsletter, and those who may be interested in viewing past issues of the newsletter, can now access a complete archive of past issues dating all the way back to our very first issue on August 26, 2006.

To view this extensive list of past issues of Grand Bahama Info Newsletter, click the HOME tab near the top of this web page, then click the Grand Bahama Info Newsletter Archive link just below the HOME tab.

Please note that, due to an unfortunate technical limitation, we do not currently have a newsletter archive for Nassau Info Newsletter but hope to add this soon.

If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, don't hesitate to e-mail us.

Editor - BahamaIslandsInfo.com 

Sure, anyone can visit BahamaIslandsInfo.com and soak in the bounty of information, news and important details that BahamaIslandsInfo.com delivers. But if you really call yourself a Bahamian, if you really want to "take it to the next level", if you really think you are the "best of the best"--then you need to register on BahamaIslandsInfo.com!

It's FREE! It costs you absolutely nothing, but in return you will bask in the knowledge that you are above the rest, an exclusive member of the elite.

Yeah, yeah, yeah-- but why? For one, you will be able to customise your experience on BahamaIslandsInfo.com. You can create your own unique user profile that is all yours. Secondly, you will gain access to exclusive content on BahamaIslandsInfo.com that non-members will never see. And finally, and most importantly, you will be able to contribute to the Da Dilly Tree user forums and leave comments about Muddasicks! and editorials to your heart's content! (Well, almost.) Only registered users can do that! (There will be more reasons coming -- but we'll let you enjoy the suspense for now.)

So register today. Thank us later.

BahamaIslandsInfo.com (and our two weekly e-mail newsletters, Bahama Islands Info and Morning Info) is the trend-setting and useful web site created by Barefoot Marketing and Keen i Media. Our weekly newsletters reach out to more than 16,000 residents and friends of the Bahamas with photos, articles and news about our country. Our web site serves more than a thousand visitors every day that are seeking current, relevant and reliable news and information about the Bahamas.

If you are a writer, cartoonist, photographer, or just want to share some of your experiences, we want to hear from you!