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Hi Marta and Gang -

Sorry if this is a repeat question, but:

How do I get the email addresses of reviewers? I would like to
individually thank people who reviewed my stories. But when I look at
the author information, only a partial email address is shown. As
usual, I'm probably missing something on the page that would reveal
the author's email addresses. Or are the email addresses always to
remain confidential?

- Steff

--- In MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com, "Stephanie Brucker"
<stephanie.brucker@...> wrote:

>
> Hi Marta and Gang -
>
> Sorry if this is a repeat question, but:
>
> How do I get the email addresses of reviewers? I would like to
> individually thank people who reviewed my stories. But when I look at
> the author information, only a partial email address is shown. As
> usual, I'm probably missing something on the page that would reveal
> the author's email addresses. Or are the email addresses always to
> remain confidential?
>
> - Steff
>

When I write my thank you notes, I have two broweser windwows and a
word doc with my notes all written out already open.

Window one: the yahoo group's member list

Window two: the user list frm the voter site

I search the yahoo member list by pen name; if I find the person
iimmediately, I click "Send e-mail" and paste in the stuff I have on
my word doc. If I *can't* find the person immediately, I go to the
MEFA list and look the person up by their pen name there. I get the
first part of the e-mail, and then use that to search the MEFA yahoo
group list.

Dwim

In a message dated 13/12/2006 01:01:10 GMT Standard Time,
dwimmer_laik@yahoo.com writes:

How do I get the email addresses of reviewers?<snip>>

> - Steff
>

When I write my thank you notes, I have two broweser windwows and a
word doc with my notes all written out already open.

Window one: the yahoo group's member list

Window two: the user list frm the voter site

I search the yahoo member list by pen name; if I find the person
iimmediately, I click "Send e-mail" and paste in the stuff I have on
my word doc. If I *can't* find the person immediately, I go to the
MEFA list and look the person up by their pen name there. I get the
first part of the e-mail, and then use that to search the MEFA yahoo
group list.

Dwim



Goodness Dwim you are organised!

I would just like to say a very quick thank you to all the kind reviewers
who r&r my stories and po'ms - I shall hopefully write to all of you
individually as soon as...

Also to the kind peeps who have written and thanked me!

Where are my manners? Well at the moment my lounge is covered in dust
sheets, I am covered in paint, my Yule decorations are in the loft and my Yule
gifts are in the shop!

KnittedMerry is nagging me to get on with his Yule card and I've not even
been to LJ in months!

...and I've just found out I'm going to be a Granny for the first time! Not
sure whether to be delighted or daunted? No... delighted, definitely
delighted!

So in the meantime everybody please accept this quick note as my thanks and
a special big Thank You to all the organisers, workers and admins who have
made this contest such fun and opened the door on so many wonderful fics I might
not otherwise have seen.

And, in conclusion (honest) if I didn't review your story, I almost
certainly didn't read it. Sadly only human - next time I hope.

Cheers and Merry Yule
Liza (Llinos)


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Stephanie Brucker
> Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 8:45 PM
> To: MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [MEFAwards] Contacting MEFA authors
>
> Hi Marta and Gang -
>
> Sorry if this is a repeat question, but:
>
> How do I get the email addresses of reviewers? I would like
> to individually thank people who reviewed my stories. But
> when I look at the author information, only a partial email
> address is shown. As usual, I'm probably missing something on
> the page that would reveal the author's email addresses. Or
> are the email addresses always to remain confidential?
>
> - Steff
>

Steff,

We made a purposeful choice to hide email addresses to protect our members'
privacy. However, all of the reviewers are members of this Yahoo group so
you should be able to send them a private message through here. To do that:

- go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MEFAwards/
- log in to your Yahoo account if you haven't already
- click the "members" link on the left-hand side of the page.
- find the reviewer's Yahoo ID. If you don't know it search for the first
half of their email address. This much of the email address *is* viewable on
our website, by clicking the "Member/Author List" link on the first page you
see when logging in or the "Users" link at the top of every page.
- click the "Send Message" link under the Yahoo ID of the person you're
trying to contact.

Yahoo will send the person an email with your message, and it will look like
it came from you.

Btw - when you hit send it will say your message was posted. It hasn't been
posted to the group, it's been sent privately to the individual.

And if that doesn't work, email what you'd like sent to me privately and
I'll forward it to them.

Marta