[AMBIENT] Portable Hole Deadline rears ugly head

[Dextra]

Just thought I'd better actually put a date up for a deadline for submissions for Son of a Portable Hole, otherwise we'd be swamped until March 30th, I'm sure.

Final deadline for text is noon my time, Friday March 14th.

Final deadline for art is noon my time, Monday March 24th. See here for more details as to what we're looking for:
http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=43081

Thanks, y'all.

 

[Flyspeck23]

Hmmm... I tried to send you two pieces, but I got the following message back:

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** THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY **
** YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE **
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The original message was received at Thu, 6 Mar 2003 17:08:46 +0100 (MET)
from pD9E0923F.dip.t-dialin.net [217.224.146.63]

----- Transcript of session follows -----
451 dreadgazebo.com: Name server timeout
Warning: message still undelivered after 4 hours
Will keep trying until message is 5 days old

What now? Send the mail again with the possible danger that you receive the same mail twice? Use another address? Sit tight? Panic?

Man, I sure hate deadlines

 

[Henry]

Dextra, about the text deadline, is the deadline for new material submissions already passed, or are you still looking for anything? There were two submissions I had that are original creations, and was planning to submit them, but got too tied up to do so.

If it is too late for new material, there's always next year.

 

[philreed]

Should I submit?

I actually have some goofy stuff I want to do. Should I submit?

 

[Dextra]

bring it on!

if you have text to submit, please send it along asap- that way we can try and get it illustrated. heck, if you have a pet artist who would accomodate your submission, that'd be swell.

we just really really really can't accept any new text stuff after the 14th, because we need to edit, do layout, etc.

and don't forget, we only pay in advertising: if you are a designer and submit something, we will gladly include a business-card size ad, possibly something larger depending on the size and quality of your creation.

 

[Flyspeck23]

Then I should send it again? (Just curious... )

 

[Dextra]

Then I should send it again? (Just curious... )

if you haven't received a confirmation of receipt from me by monday, then please resend.

 

[Flyspeck23]

Been there, done that.

Well, what can I say? After waiting till Monday night (European time), I resend the mail. And this morning I got exactly the same message back as the first time (see above).

That sure doesn´t look good...

(BTW, both texts I´ve send put together are about 16kb, so I think even if they do arrive after all it won´t be much of a hassle)

 

[Dextra]

alrighty then

try sending to
webmaster@ambient.ca
please

 

[Flyspeck23]

3rd time is the charm I guess. Now it worked - thank you pretty much. Now it´s up to the quality of my stuff (or lack thereof, for that matter ) .

BTW, good luck with any and all submissions! Hope the son will be even better (though that´s hard to accomplish) than the father.