An Important Note To All Recipe List Members - December 31st, 2007
More Soulful Recipes December 31st, 2007
Publisher: Willie Crawford Editor: Willie Crawford
Home of the Soul Food Cookbook…
http://Chitterlings.com/cookbook.html
Offices at:
2345 Whispering Pines Blvd., Navarre, Florida 32566
Note: Please send recipes and recipe requests to
the address you got when you subscribed.
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This issue of “More Soulful Recipes” is an IMPORTANT note, from
the publisher, of CHANGES that we’re making to improve this list
in 2008.
Please take a few minutes to read these changes so that you’ll
understand what’s going on.
If you check the registration record at: http://betterwhois.com/
you’ll see that Chitterlings.com has been online since December
24th, 1998. We actually had recipes online on a different domain
prior to then, but this is when our current website started AND
when I first decided to publish an email recipe list.
In the intervening 9 years, we’ve gone through a number of changes,
all forced upon us by changing circumstances.
That’s what’s happening now.
One of the PROBLEMS that we’ve encountered lately is that people
are taking the issues sent to them and posting the entire email
onto their websites. That violates all types of copyright and
privacy rules because the emails contain personal email addresses
of list members… and for other reasons.
When you take an issue sent to you as an email and post it to
a webpage you’ve basically just added that person’s email address
to hundreds of spammers lists. There are email harvesting robots
that constantly “crawl” the internet collecting email addresses.
Those harvested email addresses are sold to spammer… and those
spammers then send out blasts offering their junk to tens of
millions. They don’t care who they email to, they just play a
numbers game.
Your email address is perfectly safe being sent in an email as it
only appears in the recipient’s email box - not on a website.
However, starting today, we will no longer publish the email
addresses of list members even in the email issues. That’s
because when we’ve emailed people in the past asking them NOT
to post entire email issues to their websites, they’ve ignored
us.
That’s one of the reasons we do have members getting lots of
junk email as a result of belong to our recipe list. It comes
from other places to, but having members posts issues to their
websites HAS BECOME A BIG PROBLEM!
Now, we request that when you submit a recipe, that just above
the title of the recipe that you include your name if you want
credit for the recipe. We’ll publish your name and the recipe but
NOT the email address.
If you have a website, you may also include ONE link to your
website at the bottom of the recipe. This will send some of
the over 1 million visitors that we get to our website EVERY
month over to visit your website.
Another change that we’re making is that from now on we will
not run more than two recipes from any one person in any issue.
With tens of thousands of subscribers, we want the list to feel
like it belongs to everyone. To encourage more people to submit
recipes again, we’ll only run a maximum of two recipes per
person per day.
At the same time, we ask that you ONLY submit your own recipes,
not recipes copied from other recipe lists that you may
belong to. We want people to have confidence in using recipes
on our list, and the only way that can happen is if you only
pass along recipes that you’ve actually tried and loved.
We have had list members go out and purchase items and prepare
untested recipes that they’ve gotten from the list… only
resulting in them wasting their time and money… and creating
a MESS. So please only submit tried-and-true recipes!
Thank you for taking the time to read this very important
note.
If you have any questions, please submit them to our help
desk where we have support people standing by. Please submit
them at: http://WillieCrawford.com/helpdesk/
Click on the link where it says “open a new ticket” and then
choose the category “cooking list.” This will ensure that your
note gets to the right person on our staff. That help desk is
used to support several hundred websites, so it IS important
that you submit the ticket to the proper category.
Please DO NOT submit recipes to the helpdesk. Instead, please
submit recipes or request for recipes to the email address
that you were given when you first subscribed.
The final change that I’ll mention today is that, starting
today, you’ll also always be able to read the latest issue
online. Since we won’t have the email addresses in the
issues, we can now post them on our website. So, you’ll be
able to read each issue at: http://Chitterlings.com/blog/
Back issues are not posted there, but some may eventually
be. A staff member will have to go through and edit them
first, and we don’t have anyone available for that job yet.
Thank you VERY much for being a loyal subscriber. We look
forward to making this recipe list better than ever in 2008.
Sincerely,
Willie Crawford
Editor - More Soulful Recipes
Webmaster - http://Chitterlings.com
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