Maybe it's not the moon at all.
Aug. 12th, 2008 04:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dejanaWhat's the deal with life, that everyone always ends up reminiscing about how much simpler everything was in the old days? Do things really get more and more complicated as time goes on? Are we therefore headed for some ultimate maximum level of complexity at which point the whole world will explode? Or is it just that difference and change are perceived as being "more complex?"
Reading things like this makes me nervous. Possibly reasonably so, possibly unreasonably. It may be paranoia to let it unsettle me, but when articles like this crop up I start to understand more of the reasons why people want to run archives by committee. (The overall implications of this ruling are rather frightening, and the whole thing is completely outrageous, but that's not what's bothering me most at the moment.) If the law ever knocks on my door, it'll be me, alone, who takes the entirety of the consequences. There are no co-owners, no fellow admins. There's only me. For .moon and, as of last night, for ASMR. I wonder if that might have anything to do with the former owners jumping ship.
Yes, the new moonromance.net is now officially open, incomplete as it is. I've already received some nice comments and requests to submit material. :)
Holy hell, though, mass email is a much tougher task than it used to be. It's going on ten years since I ran the PDSU mailing list, and a hell of a lot of spam has gone through the pipes since then. Everyone's got a pain in the ass spam barrier that's a chore to get around. Damn spammers mucking up the tubes. I went to send my announcement email to the 600+ people who had requested it, only to find my host only allows mass emails sent from its special newsletter system. Which appears to be a fine system, except you have to get extra confirmation from every subscriber, which was NOT an option for me at two hours past the window I'd given myself for opening the site.
So then began the giant hassle of trying to find somewhere that would let me send my mass announcement. In the process I gave myself a brief panic attack by managing to break my contact forms that had been working just fine for months. ARGH. Just what you want to face at 4:00 in the morning. Eventually I had to resort to the good old days by making a new screen name on AOL and sending the thing from there. Ah, flashbacks to PDSU again. But ugh, trying to look professional from an AOL address. What a pain. Plus, going through all the resulting bounce notices, nobody on Comcast got the message because the email had too many recipients and was blocked as spam. Sigh.
Also, a surprising number of people apparently can't spell their email address, or think it needs a www at the beginning. Bounce, bounce, bounce. In many of these cases, I could probably guess the proper address, but with 600+ (!) people on the list I really can't be going around trying repeatedly to get the emails to these folks. I hope they get the message through word of mouth.
I'll probably migrate the mailing list to the site host's system, once I can get around to setting up new subscription and confirmation pages and can allow everyone time to respond to a new confirmation email. It'll weed out the rest of the bogus addresses, at least.
In other news, it's the 12th today, I'm missing sleep this afternoon to get my legs waxed, I'm flying to Florida on Thursday, and I completely forgot what else I was going to put in this post.
Reading things like this makes me nervous. Possibly reasonably so, possibly unreasonably. It may be paranoia to let it unsettle me, but when articles like this crop up I start to understand more of the reasons why people want to run archives by committee. (The overall implications of this ruling are rather frightening, and the whole thing is completely outrageous, but that's not what's bothering me most at the moment.) If the law ever knocks on my door, it'll be me, alone, who takes the entirety of the consequences. There are no co-owners, no fellow admins. There's only me. For .moon and, as of last night, for ASMR. I wonder if that might have anything to do with the former owners jumping ship.
Yes, the new moonromance.net is now officially open, incomplete as it is. I've already received some nice comments and requests to submit material. :)
Holy hell, though, mass email is a much tougher task than it used to be. It's going on ten years since I ran the PDSU mailing list, and a hell of a lot of spam has gone through the pipes since then. Everyone's got a pain in the ass spam barrier that's a chore to get around. Damn spammers mucking up the tubes. I went to send my announcement email to the 600+ people who had requested it, only to find my host only allows mass emails sent from its special newsletter system. Which appears to be a fine system, except you have to get extra confirmation from every subscriber, which was NOT an option for me at two hours past the window I'd given myself for opening the site.
So then began the giant hassle of trying to find somewhere that would let me send my mass announcement. In the process I gave myself a brief panic attack by managing to break my contact forms that had been working just fine for months. ARGH. Just what you want to face at 4:00 in the morning. Eventually I had to resort to the good old days by making a new screen name on AOL and sending the thing from there. Ah, flashbacks to PDSU again. But ugh, trying to look professional from an AOL address. What a pain. Plus, going through all the resulting bounce notices, nobody on Comcast got the message because the email had too many recipients and was blocked as spam. Sigh.
Also, a surprising number of people apparently can't spell their email address, or think it needs a www at the beginning. Bounce, bounce, bounce. In many of these cases, I could probably guess the proper address, but with 600+ (!) people on the list I really can't be going around trying repeatedly to get the emails to these folks. I hope they get the message through word of mouth.
I'll probably migrate the mailing list to the site host's system, once I can get around to setting up new subscription and confirmation pages and can allow everyone time to respond to a new confirmation email. It'll weed out the rest of the bogus addresses, at least.
In other news, it's the 12th today, I'm missing sleep this afternoon to get my legs waxed, I'm flying to Florida on Thursday, and I completely forgot what else I was going to put in this post.
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Date: Aug. 12th, 2008 12:11 pm (UTC):)
YAY! pictures tonight!! 12x12
have a good day
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Date: Aug. 12th, 2008 01:25 pm (UTC)>_>
*dances on the floor*
Thursday, Thursday, Thursday!
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Date: Aug. 12th, 2008 04:34 pm (UTC)I do have to agree, the link you posted is a bit nervewracking, as it does intrude on free speech. However, I can't say I necessarily agree with what was written on it, and the fact she sold the memberships is especially iffy.
On that, I don't think you have to worry about something like that happening, unless you happen to post that "special" chapter of Against All Odds where Chibi-Usa gets sexually abused and raped by her dad and all the senshi. (Oh, wait, I'm thinking of Chibi-Usa's 7th Birthday. Whoops?) However, even that aside, I don't see either .moon or ASMR going down on child obsenity charges, since neither site, as far as I can tell, has any, and you don't make any money off of it.
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Date: Aug. 13th, 2008 08:23 am (UTC).moon might have some such material. I don't know. I haven't read every story that's on there. Being that it's all-fandoms, you never know what someone might submit. Snape/Hermione, for example, would seem to fit the bill, and that's a popular pairing. I've also been encouraged to eventually host ASMR's hentai collection, and I know there is definitely material of that caliber in there.
I may be overreacting, but I have yet to find a concrete reason why I don't have to worry.
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Date: Aug. 12th, 2008 04:54 pm (UTC)And XD reading about your mailing list and 4:00 AM and in the confusion shut the contact down. ZOMG, that took me back too. ROFL. Oh man...kekekekekekekekeke being a webmaster is so stressful sometimes. XD *pats head* I feeeeeeels yourrrsss painnnn. <3
Congrats on getting ASMR back up (a little) that's a feat. I like the layout you made for it and the concept of being somewhat of a fandom tribute, sailor moon fandom certainly deserves no less. Ah...remember how great it was back in like 97 - 2002ish? XD Those were the days. There are still a ton of fans out there though. Seriously PS.net and SMFF.net wouldn't get the traffic they get otherwise. >_> Gawd, what monsters I own. >_> SMFF.net has a couple of really cool coals in the fire we're working on behind the scenes for some fun stuff to get everybody involved. If I can ever get some time to WORK on putting them in motion. >_> I might just have one of the other girls get one of them started, she's been making it happen for the most part anyways. Gosh, now I'm just rambling like mad in your comments. Sorry, lack of sleep, I will stop brainstorming here. <_<
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Date: Aug. 13th, 2008 08:26 am (UTC)Have you thought about writing an essay on your experiences in the Sailormoon fandom? I'd love to have one from you ^^