Dear Leftlinkers, I know that the http://www.leftlink.net/ web site isn't ideal for everyone. Over time, I'll try to make it more ideal. I have decided, though, to stop sending the individual emails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (like this one) and start using the web site's emails (which list summaries of news and events, directing people to the web site for the full story). This will happen on March 1, 2004. Between now and then, the site will duplicate the list.
Why? The immediate reason is that I'll be overseas for at least two weeks towards the end of March. I need an easy way to have people submit events (especially) and news (perhaps not so important?) so that the administration load can be shared. Is this a permanent change? Not necessarily. If it's clearly not working as list members would like it to work, then I'll look at something else. However, I will need to know definitely - not by receiving one or two (or even ten or fifteen) emails, but by getting a large response saying that the new system isn't working as you'd like it to. There are close to 600 subscribers on the daily and digest lists, after all. What will happen? I will try to get an auto-response on [EMAIL PROTECTED] directing people to the site, with instructions on how to register and post events and news. I will try to set something in place so that there will be an alternate email address that people can submit news and articles to that can be accessed by more than one person, but sending emails to this address will necessarily take much longer than submitting them to the web site. Events go up immediately on the site, and it's a really quick process to approve news stories. Going through the huge number of emails I receive to [EMAIL PROTECTED], working out what's spam, what's not spam but doesn't fit the guidelines, then processing the emails for posting takes a lot longer. Any further comments, questions or concerns, please reply to this email. Alister Air Leftlink moderator . -- Visit the proposed Leftlink web site at http://www.leftlink.net/ -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Sub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
