2005 Letters to the Editor

[Scorpio33]

Dear Jackson,

I've had a subscription for the past few weeks, and I've not had any difficulties until today. For some reason, I'm now unable to access any of the photos. Whenever I do so, I'm taken to a page for membership subscriptions. This is happening even though I'm logged into the website and it shows that my subscription is in fact active. There's no problem to access private messages, just the photos.

Thanks for a great site!

Regards,

PB

[Marconista]

Dear Jackson,

When members want to send PM's to other members, how can we be sure that the receiver get the PM?

Is there a way that you can "mark" those regular members that have a paid subscription for us to know that they will receive the PM's we send them?
Or - will we be informed when trying to send a PM to a member that is not allowed to use the PM-function of the forum?

marconista out, for today!

[Marconista]

Dear Jackson,

I know you have various categories of members in the forum, such as "regular member", "senior member" and "advertiser" (and maybe more).

Since you have let "dannah mae" / "dannah marie" (she has two usernames, as having difficulties logging in to the forum with the first one. BTW; I checked it out, and can confirm that it is the same person with two usernames!) become a member as a provider of services to the members, I suggest that you put such members under a category called "SERVICE PROVIDER" (or similar).

Further, I suggest that you limit their access to other threads in the forum than what they were first given access to, to avoid poluting the forum.

Thanks for listening

[Wukong]

Dear Mr. Jackson,

Thank you so much for promoting my membership to a senior member of this forum as I concede that such expression of gratitude has been long overdue and I hope that the delay would not dilute the significance and value of my appreciation to you. Once again, thank you.

[Freeler]

OAH,

Many congrats on your 1,000th post!

Dear Editor,

You have kindly included the 'quote' button in this forum. All would be well if posters used it with discretion and only to quote the part of the post they wanted to reply to. Now, all to often posters quote ENTIRE posts, just to say: 'Huh, nice post'...
Waste of space comes to mind.
Were the old days, from before the quote button, really that bad that we cannot go back to them?

Regards,
Freeler

[OldAsiaHand]

Jackson,

On the occassion of my 1,000th post, I want to thank you again for this forum. It has been an invaluable resource for me. I continue to meet many great mongering buddies and can always find action as I travel around the world.

I sure hope you have an opportunity to travel to China in the not too distant future so I can thank you personally. Our offer still stands.

All the best,

OAH

[CA Traveler]

I just discovered something that others may or may not know... A tip of the hat to Jackson for banning email addresses...

IF you search for your email address... AND you have ever posted it on WSG or any other sex travel site... it will probably be pulled up as a hit!

SO, if your bride or SO happens to search one or all of your emails, it will IMMEDIATELY point you out as having visited that site! Talk about a smoking gun!!!

THIS not a problem with the new rules on WSG, but it could be a problem if you are on other boards AND, more importantly, if you have been around a while and have posts in the archives that date back before the WSG rules change!

BE WARNED!!!!

Jackson... as a suggestion, is it possible to go back in the archives with search for "@" and delete ALL email addresses?

[Luis The Great]

First and formost this is an excellent site. I am going to contribute to the forum once my 30 day trial expires paying my dues. But I would like to comment on things that should be changed.

1) I'm not a senior member but contribute Pictures. Maybe I should get a disscount since I contribute pictures. I have a feeling that picture contribution will fall once everyone has to pay.

2)I have gotten and responded to about 20 PMs regarding my posts. Can't I get some kind of discount? You are going to make money out of this PM thing so If I cant recieve how will people contact me for advise.

With all that is said everyone should contribute either $$$$ or give advise and don't forget the pictures. This is a valuable source of information.

Mr. Jackson you have every right to make $$$. You must put in a lot of time and effort and money to run this site. Its not easy. I think the regular members agree this was coming.

[Roman Guy]

Jackson,
as already reported to you before,I opened by mistake a new thread in the Italian section:Chinese on Beach.

It is because I tried to post a report but as new upgraded member i have pressed the wrong botton to create a thread.

Please Jackson,just to keep the forum "clean" would you mind to delete that folder?

Thanx.

[BadBoy213]

I have many pic to post but if I have to pay to see others and i have to post them for free? Why would I do that? You should at least make it free to people who contributed there pictures. I have about 25 pictures to Post but now I'm not posting for sure.

Mr. Jackson think for a second.

But I do agree we should Help Mr. Jackson for his hard work.

[Surin Boy]

Jackson,

Just on a general note i have to say the new opening 'newspaper' style page works very well indeed and and saves a lot of time checking for new posts in threads of interest.

A well thought out and executed addition.

Thanks

Surin Boy

[Gualtier Malde]

Hi Jackson,

I followed the rules for requesting an upgrade to senior member, but I have heard nothing back, either in my email (which I know works fine) or in a PM. Should I continue waiting? Should I assume that you just haven't gotten to it yet? Or should I assume that something is broken in the upgrade request system?

If you decide not to grant someone their upgrade request, do you respond to them or should silence be interpreted as denial? If it is the latter, should we submit an upgrade request again at some later date, after we've participated more?

I don't want to swamp you with duplicate upgrade requests, but I would also like to be able to post without my messages being held for review. I believe I've demonstrated good citizenship in that regard. What should I do at this point?

Thanks!

[Prokofiev]

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jackson,

i received an email today from you explaining the forum name changes. thanks.

but i have been unable to enter either the usa or the argentina sites for the last month.
the argentina site links to a fedora core test page.
the usa site links to nothing. the webpage will not come up at all and often locks up my computer.

i have recently changed to cox high-speed cable for my internet access. could it be my e-mail address? can't see how. my old msn is still active. can providers block paticular sites from their networks?

i'm puzzled . . .

thanks - prokofiev

[Pvarjak]

Domino and Jackson,

I'll be happy to pay you the $20.

But I've been to the Arentine site a number of times before. It's just over the past week or so, I can no longer access it. I'm not talking about posting - I'm talking about actually accessing the site.

I get error messages in Internet Explore (microsoft page that says 'we cant find www.argentinaprivate.com ) and Firefox looks and looks - and finally pops up a message saying "the connection was refused when attempting to contact www.argentinaprivate.com".

I think I've also tried another computer on my home wireless network - and also came up blank. Leads me to believe that it's Earthlink (my Internet Service Provider) or perhaps my IP is being blocked. I'll reset my DSL modem next...

I apologize for irritating you guys - but if my problem really stems from breaking the rules - I'll pay.

And I am heading down. Next weekend on LAN through Santiago.

[Domino]

The site is up and running. Yesterday more than 900 people successfully visited the site. I don't know what else to tell you. Thanks,
Jackson
Jackson: If I remember correctly, one has to have previously posted in the Argentinian section to be a member of that site. As Pvarjak's letter is his only post and as 1-1=0, he could not have previously posted there. Please bill him $20 to the Sin fund.
Also, please note the urgency of his appeal. There are many "newbie" guys who pull stunts like that, pretending they have read the forum and then asking newbie questions. Currently there is one in the Thai photo thread and previously there was one in the Thai massage thread. When I helped the Massage guy (with my first post in that section) he pm'd me to say he had not read the forum at all.
If you are still wading through all this, the Argie problem mught be, to repeat, no previous posts = no access. The Argie site is very well maintained btw (by the way).
I got access to it just now without using passwords so it is possible to just surf in as long as one has the www address.