Bruce, could you log into jitterbug and enter your email address in the user profile? I found the bug in my notification script... I was splitting on spaces when it's supposed to be commas. Works fine when there's only one user in the list, but broke when I added more. (Most of you got notifications of various types while I was playing around. I'm done now.) So... the notification script is working and everyone but Bruce and Lynn are currently in the proper notification lists. I've set up a different folder for each category and taught the filter to deposit messages accordingly. I think I want to keep sharing the followup and inactive folders. I think having three folders per category (that's nine more folders) would clutter up the screen too much. Yeah... I just stuck nine more directories in there and it's a mess. Especially the pull-down menu that has every folder on it. And we'd just get more as we become more successful and pull more categories out of "other". (I set it up this way because you guys would have really gotten annoyed at getting an email every time a ticket was modified by someone else in any way. By creating a different folder for each category, you'll only see tickets you care about, for the most part.) I'm also in the notify lists, so I'll see what's coming through. My notify script (separate from jbug's notification, but using the same notification lists) runs once a day and reminds you of tickets that haven't been touched by a jbug user in over a day. (If we're kept up to date, you'll never see a reminder.) The script is also running on the game2_followup and game3_inactive folders with a 3-day and 5-day (respectively) period before warning. That is, it doesn't squawk until an game3_inactive ticket hasn't been touched for five days. I'm currently the only person on the notification lists for these folders. Alright... Jbug's set up the way I want, so I'm leaving it up to you to get to the tickets quickly. Right now, that's the only duty you need to worry about... learning to handle game requests in a timely manner. (I'm bad at it, don't look to me for an example.) *Some* kind of reply within 24 hours... usually "do better" unless they're too good for "do better" but not quite good enough for instant approval. If you don't have time to deal with something, let me know. Our new GM's aren't going to feel like a very welcome part of the community if they have to "fight" to get a mailing list. Question: Would an automated response indicating that the request has been received, what the application process flow is, etc. and introducing yourself as the category editor be a good deal? I expect the editors to end up having a public profile and getting to know their GM's, at least a little bit. This might be a good place to get started and the user won't see his application disappear into a black hole. Mike... you've got Trek until Lynn opts back in. I'll handle Horror until Bruce gets back with the program. Thanks *very* much, guys. You probably don't realize at this point just how critical this function is to the success of the Phoenyx and just how grateful I am that you're helping out. Remember that I'm here to help you along in any way that you can. Next: I'm off to write approval guidelines and an approval process flow description. -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Listowner tools are found at http://www.phoenyx.net/listowners
