Point of Order

[sr71plt]

To readers who send e-mailed questions directly from stories in the file: If you send an author an e-mail with questions you'd like answered, you really need to use a real address where the answers can be sent. (I imagine other authors here have that problem too.)

 

[elfin_odalisque]

To readers who send e-mailed questions directly from stories in the file: If you send an author an e-mail with questions you'd like answered, you really need to use a real address where the answers can be sent. (I imagine other authors here have that problem too.)

I miss the point probably.

To contact an author through the site you have to use your Lit email addy. What's the problem?

 

[lovecraft68]

I miss the point probably.

To contact an author through the site you have to use your Lit email addy. What's the problem?

What he is saying is that many times we get private feedback through the site and people ask questions....but they chose the anonymous option rather than filling in an e-mail that we can respond to.

So they are asking us something and not giving us anyway to respond

Happens a lot.

 

[sr71plt]

I miss the point probably.

To contact an author through the site you have to use your Lit email addy. What's the problem?

The problem is that a good quarter of the given e-mail addresses you answer back to are duds. They don't go anywhere.

 

[sr71plt]

What he is saying is that many times we get private feedback through the site and people ask questions....but they chose the anonymous option rather than filling in an e-mail that we can respond to.

So they are asking us something and not giving us anyway to respond

Happens a lot.

No, I'm saying that sometimes the e-mails you send an answer to aren't active e-mail addresses. They get bounced.

 

[lovecraft68]

No, I'm saying that sometimes the e-mails you send an answer to aren't active e-mail addresses. They get bounced.

Oh...I don't think I've had that happen to me yet.

I wonder if they are aware of it and sit there calling the author's names for not responding?

 

[sr71plt]

Yes, I've frequently written up responses to what turned out to be fake e-mail addresses--probably set up only long enough to register at Lit. and then abandoned and closed down.

The one yesterday was even more of a headscratcher than that. I didn't check the sender close enough to see that it wasn't really an e-mail address. It was just a name (Kinkodyssey). I prepared an answer, cut and pasted the name, and of course it didn't go because it wasn't really an e-mail address. How it got accepted by Lit. and sent through as a comment to my e-mail address I have no idea.

Checking the member lists here didn't come up with a "Kinkodyssey" member either.

 

[lovecraft68]

I've done that....typed a response to a great feedback then noticed it was anon

Maybe in your case the person screwed up and never entered the back half of their e-mail?

Seems like the best feedback I receive there is no way to respond to. Meanwhile "Oh, your stories are so hot! It reminded me of when I had sex with my mom! Do you do your mom?"

They always leave an e-mail

 

[DreamCloud]

I have received a few comments from dead email addresses, mostly pointing out my grammar and spelling errors.

I try to thank them, rude or not, and find I get a bounce back marked undeliverable. Makes me wonder why the went to the trouble to write as a non-anon. Maybe to hold a favorites list.

 

[RejectReality]

They may not all be on purpose.

On two occasions I've sent a reply that bounced back, only to receive a follow-up from the person a day or so later. One saw a post I'd made either here on my own forum about the bounce, and the most recent one caught the mistake on their own.