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Each issue we aim to give you a chance to tell us what you
think about a particular subject. In future issues we aim to
find out what kind of games you play, what articles you
would like to read, and so on.
This issue though, we're focussing on a more narrow issue,
specifically whether a letter we received was a bit out of
order, as we thought, or if we're just a bunch of cry-babies
who need to grow up and get wise.
When we began to create the first issue (the one you're
reading now) we put up an initial advert page, which you may
have read. This explained what Critical Miss was about, and
included a form where people could "subscribe" . We also
began trying to get our URL included on various directories.
One of the directories we approached was Newhoo, which is a
non-profit making organisation aiming to create "the largest
human-edited directory of the web" using "a vast army of
volunteer editors."
We applied to go onto their roleplaying section, and were
rejected, on the grounds that our site was still being prepared.
Fair point. When we thought about it we probably even agreed
with the decision. But it was the way it was delivered that got
us, frankly, a little bit narked.
This is the letter we received from a "volunteer editor" is
response to our application
From: Xxxxxx Xxxxx
To: [email protected]
Subject: Newhoo Critical Miss Roleplaying submission
Date: Tue, Oct 13, 1998, 5:21 pm
It sounds interesting, but...
Could you re-submit when your site is actually UP -
i.e., has some interesting information on it?
Until then, I, at least,* won't accept it. There
are too many Web sites that have "coming soon" on
them for years and years.
Xxxxxx Xxxxx
*Of course Newhoo has half-a-dozen editors. If you're
persistent, eventually one of the others with different
standards may get to a re-submission before I do, and
accept the site.
I imagine it might be less work to actually get the
first issue on-line, no?
Now if this had been Yahoo patronising us we would have been
ecstatic - just to get a reply from the mighty Yahoo. But
Newhoo is not Yahoo by any stretch of the imagination.
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