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| Greetings Members! 50% more time, twice the food, longer events, new location, beautiful hotel, and 3x as long to plan! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- :: Support Our Sponsor :: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- *~*~* Print Your Writing Affordably! *~*~* http://www.inkquik.com/ INCREDIBLE prices on high-quality INKJET and TONER cartridges. 30-day money-back guarantee for worry-free shopping and same-day shipping on orders placed by 1 PM Pacific time. Shipping only $3.95 whether you order 1 or 100 cartridges! Visit InkQuik today and start saving! http://www.inkquik.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- :: Don't Wait; Register NOW! :: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Our first convention was a huge and memorable success! We laughed, we cried. Friends met for the first time and strangers became close friends. We have a fun-filled, creative and inspiring time planned for all who attend the Stories.Com Convention 2003. You won't want to miss this event. ** In addition to space being LIMITED, register during this Early Pre-Registration period and $AVE! Don't Wait; Register NOW! **
---------------------------------------------------------------------- :: Please Remember :: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Supporting Stories.Com by visiting our sponsors helps us continue to bring you more innovative, new features! InkQuik.Com @ http://www.InkQuik.Com/ Thanks for your continued support of Stories.Com! ~~ The StoryMaster   
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| Greetings Members! We celebrated our two year birthday with party decorations, community contests and great style! Now, we'd like to announce the winners of the contests and present a donation to site charity! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- :: Support Our Sponsor :: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Infinity Publishing invites you to attend our 3rd Annual Express Yourself…Writers/Authors Conference, October 3 - 6, 2002, at the Sheraton Hotel, Valley Forge, PA. Talk to pros, connect with an agent, align with authors, learn what’s profitable in publishing today—our exceptional array of presenters are informative and entertaining. Info: http://www.infinitypublishing.com/conferences1.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- :: The Winners Are... :: ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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Second Place: A wonderful place this can be, Balloons and cake on the marquee: We party around and we won’t gain a pound, For pictures are always fat free! by: a_1000yrs Third Place: There once was a site, name of Stories Where writers could show off their glories StoryMaster's the fellow who made the background yellow And came up with the item categories. But you can't say he did it alone Unless StoryMistress wasn't at home Because without all her work We'd think SM a jerk And Stories would be a dusty old tome Together they've made a great place Where writers can meet face to face Well, at least face to screen If you know what I mean Because in person we'd take up more space. But we've got lots of features and toys For good (and bad) girls and boys Where we can write what we please And I think everyone agrees That we should all be making some noise. So Happy Birthday To You Stories.com, SM, and SMs too We wish you more years And dozens more cheers And let's hope the background never changes to blue. by: dingolord ---------------------------------------------------------------------- :: Our Donation to RAOK :: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- As promised, Stories.Com is donating 10% of all product purchases from August 27th through September 7th to:
The total proceeds raised came to 175,000 Gift Points for this great group! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- :: Please Remember :: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Our birthday celebration and contests were made possible by Infinity Publishing and their 3rd Annual Express Yourself… Writers/Authors Conference being held October 3 - 6, 2002. Find out more: http://www.infinitypublishing.com/conferences1.htm Thanks for your continued support of Stories.Com! ~~ The StoryMaster
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| Greetings $username! In celebration of our 2-year birthday, we're increasing our Gift Point Payouts to our members! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- :: Support Our Sponsor :: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- *~*~* Print Your Writing Affordably! *~*~* http://www.inkquik.com/ INCREDIBLE prices on high-quality INKJET and TONER cartridges. 30-day money-back guarantee for worry-free shopping and same-day shipping on orders placed by 1 PM Pacific time. Shipping only $3.95 whether you order 1 or 100 cartridges! Visit InkQuik today and start saving! http://www.inkquik.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- :: More Gift Points for You! :: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To show our gratitude to the community members, we've decided to increase the amount of Gift Points paid out for logging in each day! Gift Points are much more useful and recognized within the community than they were when we first introduced them over a year ago. Since there are more ways to use Gift Points, we feel you could use a few more for coming to visit us each day!  The Gift Point increases are as follows: Registered Members: From 1 to 2 GPs Registered Authors: From 2 to 4 GPs Preferred Authors: From 5 to 10 GPs Stories.Com Moderators: From 10 to 20 GPs Stories.Com Senior Moderators: From 20 to 50 GPs This Gift Point increase will begin 12:01 AM (EST), September 11, 2002. Enjoy! For more information on Stories.Com Gift Points, please see:
With this comes a friendly reminder that members may have only one account @ Stories.Com and that fraud involving the Gift Point system will not be tolerated. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- :: Please Remember :: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Supporting Stories.Com by visiting our sponsors helps us continue to bring you more innovative, new features! InkQuik.Com @ http://www.InkQuik.Com/ Thanks for your continued support of Stories.Com! ~~ The StoryMaster |
| As of this posting, Stories.Com is storing more than 80 Gigabytes of email for its members. Due to this ever increasing burden of email storage we will be implementing some global email purging procedures: At our discretion, "SentMail" folders will have any messages 3 months (90 days) or OLDER removed. At our discretion, member "INBOX"'s will have any messages 3 months (90 days) or OLDER removed. Most members never use or look at mail that has aged in either of these folders for this amount of time. If you would like to keep any of the messages in either of these mailboxes, we suggest you move them into another email folder, print out copies, or download them to your computer. This posting is to serve as notice that we will begin these procedures on or about October 1st, 2002. Once begun, we will run the purging process on a regular basis. Please be sure to keep any messages you wish to hang onto in other folders within the email system. We will also make efforts to provide some two/three click tools to purge these area yourself, on demand. Thank you for your continued support, ~~SM
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| Our maintanence was successfully completed by 1:00am EST. An open testing period from 1:00am thru 2:00am EST was also successful. The maintanence period is complete and "all systems are go". Thank you for your patience and continued support. ~~SM
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| This is a scheduled maintanence notice. We will be upgrading and migrating Stories.Com web and database hosting hardware late this evening. This migration will remove an aging server from the group of servers that we use to host Stories.Com. The maintanence window will be 9/10 from 12:30am - 2:00am EST. Stories.Com will be unaccessible during most of this time. We will do our best to fit our chores within this time schedule. Please be careful creating any new items, posts, etc as the 12:30am EST time approaches. ~~SM
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| Greetings Members! This is just a quick reminder from an announcement we made last week... :: 10% To The RAOK Brigade! :: For any product purchases made between 8/27/02 and 9/7/02, Stories.Com will convert 10% of the product's prices into Gift Points and contribute them to the "RAOK Upgrade Brigade Group"  .In the past few months, this group has come together to provide Upgraded Memberships to more than 150 members! (And a special Happy Birthday to Papillon  , this charity group's leader!)The Stories.Com contribution promise includes purchases of T-shirts, Journals and Caps as well as our 5 new products. It excludes on-site services such as Gift Points and Upgraded / Premium Memberships. Visit our store --> http://www.stories.com/main/store.php Thanks for your continued support! ~~The StoryMaster
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| Greetings Members! It's time to celebrate Stories.Com's Two Year Birthday! Break out the cake and ice cream and put your party hats on! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- :: Support Our Sponsor :: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Infinity Publishing invites you to attend our 3rd Annual Express Yourself…Writers/Authors Conference, October 3 - 6, 2002, at the Sheraton Hotel, Valley Forge, PA. Talk to pros, connect with an agent, align with authors, learn what’s profitable in publishing today—our exceptional array of presenters are informative and entertaining. Info: http://www.infinitypublishing.com/conferences1.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- :: Good Reason to Party! :: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- We've finally hit another great milestone; Stories.Com is two years old. This community, its features and members have come a long way over the last two years and we're proud to say we're still going strong! Help us celebrate this wonderful event this week; we've outlined some fun birthday activities for you below! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- :: Party Central! :: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- All of the official Stories.Com birthday activities are linked from within Party Central. This will be linked at the top of the "Member Tools" pulldown menu throughout the entire week (September 1st - 7th, 2002).
---------------------------------------------------------------------- :: costumicons Available Again! :: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Grab a slice of cake, break out the bubbly and put your party hat on! We've opened the sitewide subscriptions for costumicons again! Don't wait... get yours NOW! Subscriptions for this period won't last long and will end September 15th, 2002. Remember, you can gift costumicons to others quickly and easily from within your "Gift Points" page. http://www.stories.com/main/my_account.php?action=ea_form&type=costumicon ---------------------------------------------------------------------- :: Please Remember :: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Our birthday celebration and contests are being made possible by Infinity Publishing and their 3rd Annual Express Yourself… Writers/Authors Conference being held October 3 - 6, 2002. Find out more: http://www.infinitypublishing.com/conferences1.htm Thanks for your continued support of Stories.Com! ~~ The StoryMaster |
| Greetings Members! Be sure you read this entire email! We've released tons of new features for our StoriesML and you won't want to miss any of them! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- :: Support Our Sponsor :: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- *~*~* Print Your Writing Affordably! *~*~* INCREDIBLE prices on high-quality INKJET and TONER cartridges. 30-day money-back guarantee for worry-free shopping and same-day shipping on orders placed by 1 PM Pacific time. Shipping only $3.95 whether you order 1 or 100 cartridges! Visit InkQuik today and start saving! http://www.inkquik.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- :: More Ways To Reference Items! :: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- It just felt like item & bitem weren't enough, didn't it? Now there's more ways to reference works on Stories.Com! ... C is for Clean ... {citem:303715}
... G is for Genre ... {gitem:303715}
... L is for Line ... {litem:303715} "Technical Support Forum" by Writing.Com Support  ... T is for Time ... {titem:303715}
Thanks to a new innovation within the StoriesML processing system, we've been able to add the above new codes while still increasing the efficiency and performance of the system by more than 25%! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- :: New Color System :: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To make it faster and easier for the StoriesML system to process colors, we're making an important change: Old Way: {violet} text {/violet} New Way: {c:violet} text {/c} This new system allows us to add more colors and features without adding more stress to the Stories.Com servers! We will keep the old color system active for about 6 months. At that time, we'll send a script through and change all existing old color tags to the new system. You won't have to do a thing to your old items. But at that same time, we'll stop processing the old color tags, so you better be up to speed on the new ones! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- :: Randomly Rotate COLORS :: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This new system allows you to randomly rotate colors in your items and postings on Stories.Com! Just separate your colors by commas as seen below: {c:blue,red,orange,green,violet} These colors rotate!{/c} These colors rotate! (Color rotation will not work within Scrolling Messages.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- :: And Three (3) Brand New COLORS! :: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- As we said above, the changes to the color system allow us to add MORE colors... so here's a few to get your started: grey pink lblue (light blue!) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- :: Your User Line Too Long? Try A Shorter One! :: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- While we're at it, we've noticed that more and more items with more and more user tags are being written. (Conventionitis, anyone??) To help clean up the look and feel of these well written items, we introduce the new suser tag. S is for Short and as such this tag provides a cleaner, friendlier, shorter display of a member's handle and portfolio icon. For Example: {user:storymistress} -- The StoryMistress  {suser:storymistress} -- The StoryMistress ---------------------------------------------------------------------- :: Documentation Updated :: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To go along with all of these great, new changes, we've also updated the StoriesML popup Help window. Remember this is always available from within your Member Tools pulldown menu under "Author Tools". ---------------------------------------------------------------------- :: Please Remember :: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Supporting Stories.Com by visiting our sponsors helps us continue to bring you more innovative, new features! InkQuik.Com @ http://www.InkQuik.Com/ Thanks for your continued support of Stories.Com! ~~ The StoryMaster |
| Greetings Members! We are pleased to announce the addition of five (5) new products in our online store... And we're donating to on site charity with each product purchase! :: Support Our Sponsor :: *~*~* Print Your Writing Affordably! *~*~* INCREDIBLE prices on high-quality INKJET and TONER cartridges. 30-day money-back guarantee for worry-free shopping and same-day shipping on orders placed by 1 PM Pacific time. Shipping only $3.95 whether you order 1 or 100 cartridges! Visit InkQuik today and start saving! http://www.inkquik.com :: Five New Stories.Com Branded Products! ::  Tote Bag: Carry your journals, crafts or even your lunch in this sturdy canvas bag! These make great gifts for your friends and family, too! Travel Mug: We know you need that caffeine to keep you going at night, so whether it's coffee or tea, this stylish black mug will hold 16 oz. of it! Mouse Pad: They don't make them like this anymore! This mouse pad has a soft surface and 1/4" thick soft rubber on the bottom. We looked high and low to find these for you! Bessie Squeezie: For those extra stressful times, you can now let Bessie calm you down! Grab the UNofficial mascot of Stories.Com and squeeze her until you feel better. If you want to get to know her, visit Bovine Bessie .License Plate Frame: Now you can take Stories.Com with you on your travels! Show off your community spirit and place this around your license plate. You never know, that next newbie might be sitting right behind you in traffic! Visit our store --> http://www.stories.com/main/store.php :: 10% To The RAOK Brigade! :: For any product purchases made between 8/27/02 and 9/7/02, Stories.Com will convert 10% of the product's prices into Gift Points and contribute them to the "RAOK Upgrade Brigade Group" .In the past few months, this group has come together to provide Upgraded Memberships to more than 150 members! (And a special Happy Birthday to Papillon , this charity group's leader!)The Stories.Com contribution promise includes purchases of T-shirts, Journals and Caps as well as our 5 new products. It excludes on-site services such as Gift Points and Upgraded / Premium Memberships. Visit our store --> http://www.stories.com/main/store.php :: Please Remember :: Supporting Stories.Com by visiting our sponsors helps us continue to bring you more innovative, new features! InkQuik.Com @ http://www.InkQuik.Com/ Thanks for your continued support of Stories.Com! ~~ The StoryMaster
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