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Hey guys,

If someone nominated one of your pieces for the 2006 MEFAs you should
have received an email telling you about these awards. The text of
this email is generated automatically by our website, by taking a
form letter and customizing it with information specific to your
story. If you have ever used the mail merge feature in a word
processor like Microsoft Word, the process is really very similar.

All of which means that we need to start off with a good email. The
email we send authors needs to explain a little the awards, tell them
what we need them to do (and by when) for their story to compete, and
not get caught in their spam filter. We had some problems this year,
especially with the last of those concerns. And it's important to me
that we not make the same mistakes twice.

To that end, we are discussing how to change this form over at the
[mefa-discussions] Yahoo group. I have posted one example of an email
generated by the site this last year (for one of my own
stories, "Make It One for Paladin") at

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mefa-discussion/message/201

If you are not already a member and would like to be involved on
discussing how these awards are run or just would like to join in on
this conversation, you can join this group. If you don't have a Yahoo
ID send me an email at mefasupport(at)gmail(dot)com and I will add
you as an email-only member.

If you don't want to join but still have advice about how the email
could be changed you can also email me at that same address. I don't
have the time to discuss these suggestions with everyone
individually, but I will pass on your suggestions to the group and
we'll take them into consideration.

Marta