Quick brain-storming session

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Vigilante

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May 24, 2009, 12:33:49 AM5/24/09
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Ok, folks, I need your help.

I have to come up with the title for a letters column in a travel
magazine. My two best ideas are "Room Service" or "From The Lobby".
Which do you like, or can you think of anything better?

kaploy9

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May 24, 2009, 12:56:12 PM5/24/09
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They both sound pretty good, but your talking about the name for a
section hilighting letters sent in by readers, right? I'm think maybe
something like "Courtesy Phone", or maybe something from a postcard
such as the oft-used "Wish You were here.."

Other then that, all that I can think of is:
"Letters-Abroad"
"Airmail"
"Not-so-Snail Mail"
"Special Delivery"
"The Mail Kiosk"

Whatever your doing, I hope it turns out swell!

Vigilante

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May 24, 2009, 4:29:15 PM5/24/09
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Thanks, I'm not sure if I'd use any of those, but you're on the right
track. I plan to use a subtitle like "Responses to reader's
comments."
How about "Information Desk"?

BulletMagnet

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May 24, 2009, 7:52:04 PM5/24/09
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Personally, I like "Complaints," since it fits into the theme, but I
think your readers might get the wrong idea.

Vigilante

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May 24, 2009, 7:53:23 PM5/24/09
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For complaints I'm giving them your email address. :p

On May 24, 7:52 pm, BulletMagnet <akabulletmag...@hotmail.co.uk>
wrote:

BulletMagnet

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May 25, 2009, 3:10:09 AM5/25/09
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I wouldn't read them anyway. I've got a backlog of >1400.

kaploy9

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May 25, 2009, 2:52:16 PM5/25/09
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That one sounds pretty good, Vigilante.

So.... *cough*.... nice solar radiation today, huh?

Vigilante

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May 25, 2009, 7:54:26 PM5/25/09
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Indeed, or is that the glow from North Korea?

I think I'm going to go with "Information Desk."

Scotland Tom

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May 28, 2009, 12:46:14 AM5/28/09
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I'm obviously a little late to this one, but if I may ask: what's this
for, V? My curious mind desires the knowledge.

Vigilante

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May 28, 2009, 11:05:33 AM5/28/09
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All right, I'll come clean: it's for my new city journal on
SimTropolis, well actually two city journals. My main cj, called
Sanderra, is in the new CJ section. Unhappy with early traffic there,
I also started a thread in the old CJ forum called "The Roaming
Gnome's Guide to Sanderra" as a sort of advertisement for the full cj.

If anyone wants to check them out, here are some links (or at least
the addresses, I don't know how to turn them into real links on this
forum):

Sanderra: http://www.simtropolis.com/cityjournals/?p=toc&id=545

The Guide: http://www.simtropolis.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=36&threadid=107283&enterthread=y

kaploy9

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May 29, 2009, 6:09:25 PM5/29/09
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I was kinda "Hmm" on you working for an actual magazine. I mean,
wouldn't you be working on other things?

Anyways, nice spl- uh, CJ. I remember reading one a loooong time ago,
I think I was at a part where one of the citizen's realizes he's in a
computer game called SimCity 4 and was talking to the creator of the
CJ. I can't remember anything after that, probably just a set of
ethical questions that practicly every situation like that
encounters. ;D

Oh, and I would reccomend taking the time to get rid of the link box
on your Escape Pod plug(or whatever you call them) and the link to
your CJ. Even though the site looks alot different, I think Sporeum
and Simtropolis had the same base understructure, so it shouldn't be
much of a problem. And thanks for using that, btw!(the Escape Pod plug)

Vigilante

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May 30, 2009, 3:43:11 PM5/30/09
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I don't remember how to get rid of the link boxes :(

kaploy9

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Jun 1, 2009, 8:35:51 PM6/1/09
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8⌠ .... *resists the urge to facepalm* Ok, let me explain:

Under "Image Properties"(where you put in things like the URL and
such), there should be an empty text field labeled "Border". You'll
need type a "0" into that field. Once that's done and everything's
saved, you should have a borderless image with a hyperlink!
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