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I am getting my nominations in order and have two quick questions:

1. I gather if we are self-nominating we do not need to include an
author's email address. What about if the author is a member of this
list. If I want to nominate, say, Dwim, do I need to include her
e-mail address?

2. Most of the stories I'm rec'ing are from HASA, which with the new
site design has changed from displaying author e-mail addresses (to
the public) to providing a contact form. Protecting of authors' email
addresses and all that. So in many cases I'm not aware of the authors'
email addresses, and in others I'm slightly uncomfortable sharing
them, since the source I got them no longer displays them to the
public. Can I provide a link to this contact form instead?

Cheers,
Marta

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marta [mailto:MartaL0712@netscape.net]
> Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2004 9:27 AM
> To: MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [MEFAwards] two quick questions about nominations
>
> I am getting my nominations in order and have two quick questions:
>
> 1. I gather if we are self-nominating we do not need to
> include an author's email address. What about if the author
> is a member of this list. If I want to nominate, say, Dwim,
> do I need to include her e-mail address?

Oh, do include any author e-mail address anyway. It's just easier for the
Categorizers to do the cut & paste if they can just follow down the forms
and don't have to hunt. Besides if they are reading this on the Group site,
your e-mail address is, I believe, truncated.

> 2. Most of the stories I'm rec'ing are from HASA, which with
> the new site design has changed from displaying author e-mail
> addresses (to the public) to providing a contact form.
> Protecting of authors' email addresses and all that. So in
> many cases I'm not aware of the authors'
> email addresses, and in others I'm slightly uncomfortable
> sharing them, since the source I got them no longer displays
> them to the public. Can I provide a link to this contact form instead?

No. Contact the author before nominating and ask if you can have their
e-mail address. I'm waiting on a few of those myself. I won't be posting
author e-mail addresses on the web site. They will only be here.

And we can also make a new ruling: Once we have an author's permission to
use their stories, I will remove their e-mail address from the Nominations
database in the Databases section. That way, the only place their address
will still be shown is in the posts archive.

--Ainaechoiriel

"This evil cannot be concealed by the power of the Elves," Elrond said, "for
it is Windows-compatible, and freeware at that." --H.F.

http://www.stormpages.com/gabrielle/lotr Land of Myth and Memory
Blog: http://www.ainaechoiriel.blogspot.com

--- In MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com, "Ainaechoiriel" <mefaadmin@e...>
wrote:

Revision to my earlier answer: They already don't show on the
Nominations or Author Approval listing. That's good.

But, one thing that is important is that we do have the author's e-
mail address somewhere still in an official way.

So we can inform them of their awards!

So, Categorizers and Author Contacters: please keep a list of Authors
and e-mail addresses somewhere. For my three categories (Hobbits,
Men, and Elves) they'll be in my spreadsheet.

Just be sure to keep them where they can be easily found!

--Ainaechoiriel

>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Marta [mailto:MartaL0712@n...]
> > Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2004 9:27 AM
> > To: MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: [MEFAwards] two quick questions about nominations
> >
> > I am getting my nominations in order and have two quick questions:
> >
> > 1. I gather if we are self-nominating we do not need to
> > include an author's email address. What about if the author
> > is a member of this list. If I want to nominate, say, Dwim,
> > do I need to include her e-mail address?
>
> Oh, do include any author e-mail address anyway. It's just easier

for the

> Categorizers to do the cut & paste if they can just follow down the

forms

> and don't have to hunt. Besides if they are reading this on the

Group site,

> your e-mail address is, I believe, truncated.
>
> > 2. Most of the stories I'm rec'ing are from HASA, which with
> > the new site design has changed from displaying author e-mail
> > addresses (to the public) to providing a contact form.
> > Protecting of authors' email addresses and all that. So in
> > many cases I'm not aware of the authors'
> > email addresses, and in others I'm slightly uncomfortable
> > sharing them, since the source I got them no longer displays
> > them to the public. Can I provide a link to this contact form

instead?

>
> No. Contact the author before nominating and ask if you can have

their

> e-mail address. I'm waiting on a few of those myself. I won't be

posting

> author e-mail addresses on the web site. They will only be here.
>
> And we can also make a new ruling: Once we have an author's

permission to

> use their stories, I will remove their e-mail address from the

Nominations

> database in the Databases section. That way, the only place their

address

> will still be shown is in the posts archive.
>
> --Ainaechoiriel
>
> "This evil cannot be concealed by the power of the Elves," Elrond

said, "for

> it is Windows-compatible, and freeware at that." --H.F.
>
> http://www.stormpages.com/gabrielle/lotr Land of Myth and Memory
> Blog: http://www.ainaechoiriel.blogspot.com

If you are a Categorizer or Author Contacter, you might want to follow these
tips so we don't fall too far behind.

Set your e-mail to Individual. No Mail will mean you'll have to log onto the
site and try and find all the nominations since you looked last time, which
could be quite a few! Daily Digest is better, but still, you'll have a heck
of a lot of scrolling to do and might miss something.

Set up a separate folder in you e-mail program for nominations (or author
contact needs). As you look through each nomination, label or flag it if it
is one of your categories or an author you need to contact. Then move it to
the new folder (nominations or authors).
Then, once you have done all you need to do with it (put it in the
Nominations table and your records, or contacted the author), clear the
label or flag or check it off.

It's also good to keep two Internet Explorer windows open while you are
doing this, tuned to the Author Approval database and the Nominations
database. You can easily see if an author has already given his or her
permission (in which case there is no need to further contact them). You
can see if a story has already been nominated (in which case there is
nothing more for you to do with it, but check it for accuracy) or add it to
the table there.

--Ainaechoiriel

"This evil cannot be concealed by the power of the Elves," Elrond said, "for
it is Windows-compatible, and freeware at that." --H.F.

http://www.stormpages.com/gabrielle/lotr Land of Myth and Memory
Blog: http://www.ainaechoiriel.blogspot.com