Email List + Submission Dates

[ErikHolmes]

We could add a field on the website for signing up and removing yourself from the list.

[stridera]

The way it's currently setup would make that difficult.  One option is to make everyone create a @readingexcuses.com account and we'll only send it to the people on the list.  This might be good because then people could put up their whole works in docs.re.com and that way new people can catch up on older stuff.  (This is also pretty secure since only people with an account can access them.)  People would need to setup their email accounts to forward the emails to their real email address though, which is an extra step for the users... (or they can just use mail.re.com)  What do people think?

[Flo_the_G]

And, why the hate, Flo!  I bought the domain at lunch and got it setup by dinner!  Isn't that quick enough?

Bah, initiative is what makes people like me look lazy.

I had actually thought the domain would merely forward to here, but I suppose a proper website works as well.  As to the entire account business, I'd opt for sticking with a simple mailing list.

[stridera]

I could make it forward here if we want.

[Recovering_Cynic]

Once you guys work out the process, please update the submission instructions at the beginning.  I'll be reading those on Monday before I submit anything.  If I need an email address, can you go ahead and set me up as  , but only if I really need one.  How would I go about forwarding that address to my normal address?

[stridera]

You do NOT need a new email address.  I just threw the option out there for people who wanted to use the services.  If you do want one, just go into Settings->Forwarding and POP/IMAP->Forward a copy of incoming mail to ...   That way you'll never have to check your box and you'll still get all the emails.  (I have rules to tag emails from my various accounts, like alumni/other domains/etc)

So, just to be clear, the ONLY thing that is changing is the email address.  Now we have one instead of 30.  The rest is just fluff.

[Recovering_Cynic]

Cool.  I'll take the address anyway

[Silk]

Whoa, stuff happening!

I guess I shouldn't've gone to bed/done laundry/lost my internet connection

Anyway, my plan for whittling down the email list was to send everyone on our current list the signup instructions and tell them that if they still want to participate, they'll have to sign up for the new list.  Does that still need to be done? Let me know.

[stridera]

Silk and Chaos are signed up and setup as administers.  I'm stepping back and letting them take control of the domain.  Enjoy!

[Silk]

Thanks a bunch, Strider!

New email list should be set up and ready to go.

[Chaos]

Strider, until we get an actual website, how about readingexcuses.com just directs to http://www.timewastersguide.com/forum/index.php?board=29.0. That'd probably be the easiest thing to do.

[sortitus]

Allowing signup on the site is probably a bad idea. If you force people to come through TWG, it will eliminate spamming. Hopefully. Just have them register here and post in this thread to get invited or whatever. Also, if we now have this hidden list, we should destroy our email address listings here. So nobody gets confused and does it the hard way, and so that those of us who are paranoid can rest assured of our continued interweb security.

The Writing Excuses forum is a hidden forum of sorts. Only registered members can see it, though there's no group restriction on it. And now Silk has made a thread. I'm going to eat.

[Silk]

Sortitus makes a good point RE signing up on the (theoretical) website. And anyone joining would still have to sign up for the forum anyway, to participate in the discussion.

Way ahead of you, though, already modified the first post with the new reading excuses email address. (Scrambled.)

[Chaos]

I'll PM Fell to take Reading Excuses off of a "hidden forum" into a regular one. That was a protective measure for the Email List, and now that we can hide that info, no trouble there.

[Frog]

Well, it still does have our email addresses.... It's just indirectly now. Anyway, I kind of like it being hidden from all the lurkers... But that could just be me.