Updates

This is a complete update of closed for the Companies category.

Closed (Not open for application)
Namco Bandai (Entertainment Companies)

This is a complete update of apps & tlou removals for the Companies category.

Upcoming

Aldi (Retail Stores)

Removed From Troubles (Open for application)

Sanrio (Retail Stores)

This is a complete update of finished & moved forms, along with tlou removals & troubles removals for the Companies category.

Finished Companies

Show Dog Nashville (Record Companies)

Moved Companies

Namco (Retail Stores)

Removed From Troubles (Open for application)

decaydance (Record Companies); Accessorize (Retail Stores); Canon (Retail Stores); Hollister (Retail Stores); Hot Topics (Retail Stores)

This is a complete update of apps, finished, updates, troubles, & tlou for the Companies category.

Upcoming Companies

Namco Bandai (Entertainment Companies); Show Dog Nashville (Record Companies); YG Family (Record Companies)

Finished Companies

Arby’s (Restaurants); Blimpies (Restaurants); Long John Silver’s (Restaurants)

Moved Companies

KaDeWE (Retail Stores)

Removed From Troubles: Problem Resolved (Not open for application)

Garage (Retail Stores); Miss Selfridge (Retail Stores)

Overdue

decaydance (Record Companies); Hollister (Retail Stores)

Pending Removal

The following fanlistings are scheduled for removal on November 6, 2007. If your fanlisting is listed below, please fix the problem AND reply to the troubles email!

Accessorize (Retail Stores); Canon (Retail Stores); Hot Topics (Retail Stores)

This is a complete update of troubles for the Companies category.

Troubled Companies (Not open for application)

The following fanlistings are scheduled for removal on November 5, 2007. This update is of troubles. If your fanlisting is listed below, please fix the problem AND reply to the troubles email!

Dead Link: 404/403

KaDeWE (Retail Stores)

Inactivity: 2 Months +

Miss Selfridge (Retail Stores)

Inactivity: 2 Months + (0 Pending)

Accessorize (Retail Stores); Garage (Retail Stores)

Navigation: Script Errors

Canon (Retail Stores); Hot Topics (Retail Stores)

This is a complete update of apps, updates, & tlou removals for the Companies category.

Upcoming Companies

Arby’s (Restaurants); Blimpies (Restaurants); Long John Silver’s (Restaurants); Sanrio (Retail Stores)

Moved Companies

Burger King (Restaurants)

Removed From Troubles (Open for application)

Comic Production (Entertainment Companies); Caribou Coffee (Retail Stores); Cold Stone Creamery (Restaurants)

This is a complete update of apps, finished, updates, & tlou for the Companies category.

Upcoming Companies

decaydance (Record Companies); Hollister (Retail Stores)

Finished Companies

Fueled By Ramen (Record Companies); Chevy’s (Restaurants); Panera Bread (Restaurants); A.C. Moore (Retail Stores); Anime Pavilion (Retail Stores)

Moved Companies

DreamWorks Animation (Entertainment Companies); Staples (Retail Stores)

Overdue

Comic Production (Entertainment Companies); Caribou Coffee (Restaurants); Cold Stone Creamery (Restaurants)

This is a complete update of troubles removals for the Companies category.

Removed From Troubles (Open for application)

Kohl’s (Retail Stores)

This is a complete update of apps & finished forms along with trouble removals for the Companies category.

Upcoming Companies

Chevy’s (Restaurants); A.C. Moore (Retail Stores)

Finished Companies

Little Caesars (Restaurants)

Removed From Troubles (Open for application)

Cowlip Productions (Entertainment Companies); Dope House Records (Entertainment Companies); Dream Host (Internet Companies); A-Beat C (Record Companies); Arby’s (Restaurants); Texas Roadhouse (Restaurants); Tim Hortons (Restaurants)

Removed From Troubles: Problem Resolved (Not open for application)

Hazy Mills Productions (Entertainment Companies)

This is a complete update of apps, closed, finished, moved, & troubles for the Companies category.

Upcoming Companies

Comic Production (Entertainment Companies); Fueled By Ramen (Record Companies); Cold Stone Creamery (Restaurants); Little Caesars (Restaurants); Panera Bread (Restaurants); Anime Pavilion (Retail Stores); Caribou Coffee (Retail Stores)

Finished Companies

Applebees (Restaurants); Cheesecake Factory (Restaurants)

Moved Companies

McDonalds (Restaurants); Taco Bell (Restaurants); Wendy’s (Restaurants); BJ’s Wholesale Club (Retail Stores)

Closed Companies(Open for application)

Claire’s (Retail Stores)

Troubled Companies (Not open for application)

The following fanlistings are scheduled for removal on August 14, 2007. This is a complete troubles update. If your fanlisting is listed below, please fix the problem AND reply to the troubles email!

Dead Link: 404/403

Texas Roadhouse (Restaurants)

Inactivity: 2 Months +

Cowlip Productions (Entertainment Companies); Dream Host (Internet Companies); Dope House Records (Record Companies); Arby’s (Restaurants)

Inactivity: 2 Months + (0 Pending)

Hazy Mills Productions (Entertainment Companies); A-Beat C (Record Companies); Tim Hortons (Restaurants); Kohl’s (Retail Stores)

Navigation: Browser Issues

Kohl’s (Retail Stores)

This is a complete update of apps, closed, & finished forms for the Companies category.

Upcoming Companies

Applebees (Restaurants)

Finished Companies

Square Enix (Entertainment Companies); In-N-Out (Restaurants); McDonalds (Restaurants); American Eagle Outfitters (Retail Stores); Books Kinokuniya (Kinokuniya Shoten) (Retail Stores)

Closed Companies (Open for application)

Williams Street (Entertainment Companies); Swiss Colony, The (Retail Stores)

This is a complete update of apps, crosslisting requests, & finished forms for the Companies category.

Upcoming Companies

Square Enix (Entertainment Companies); Cheesecake Factory (Restaurants); McDonald’s (Restaurants); American Eagle Outfitters (Retail Stores); Books Kinokuniya (Kinokuniya Shoten) (Retail Stores)

Closed Companies(Open for application)

Applebees (Restaurants)

Crosslisted

Abercrombie & Fitch (Retail Stores)

This is a complete update of finished, closed, moved, & trouble removals for the Companies category.

Finished

Build-A-Bear (Retail Stores)

Moved

Applebees (Restaurants)

Closed (Open for application)

Abercrombie & Fitch (Retail Stores); Pret a Manger (Retail Stores)

Removed From Troubles (Open for application)

3CG Records (Entertainment Companies); Forest Park Pictures (Entertainment Companies); Geffen (Entertainment Companies); Reprise Records (Entertainment Companies); Saddle Creek Records (Entertainment Companies); SNK Playmore (Entertainment Companies); Caribou Coffee (Restaurants); Cheesecake Factory (Restaurants); KFC (Restaurants); McDonalds (Restaurants); Jay Jay’s (Retail Stores); Konami (Retail Stores); Powerspec (Retail Stores); Safeway (Retail Stores); Tooth & Nail (Retail Stores); Trader Joes (Retail Stores); T-Mobile (Telephone/Cell Phone Companies)

Removed From Troubles: Problem Resolved (Not open for application)

Mute Records (Entertainment Companies); Wong Fu Productions (Entertainment Companies); Arby’s (Restaurants); KaDeWE (Retail Stores); New Yorker (Retail Stores); Old Navy (Retail Stores); Rareware (Retail Stores)

This is a update of for the Songs: Various, Songs: Male Solo, Sports, Stage/Theatre, Transportation, Toys/Collectibles, Songs: Female Solo, Relationships: TV, Politics and Organisations, Places, Radio, Relationships: Book/Movie, Relationships: Real Life, TV Shows, TV/Movie/Book Miscellany, Hobbies and Recreation, Songs: Bands/Groups N-Z, Objects, Calendar Events, Companies, Academia, Songs: Bands/Groups 0-M, People Miscellany, Webmasters, Personalities, Websites, Sports Entertainment, Advertising/TV Channels, Nature, Mythology/Religion, Authors/Writers, Arts and Design, Literature, Characters: Book/Movie, Comics, Characters: TV, Animation, Animals, Actors, Awards, Actresses, Adult, Albums, Computer Miscellany and Internet, Directors/Producers, Movies, Models, Music Miscellany, Musicians: Bands/Groups, Musicians: Male, Musicians: Female, Miscellaneous, Magazines/Newspapers, Fashion/Beauty, Episodes, Food/Drinks, Games, History/Royalty, General category.

As you may know, TFL has been having a number of problems with sending e-mail to Hotmail.com addresses. After further investigation of this problem we have decided to ban the use of Hotmail.com addresses (and its sub-services, hotmail.co.uk; msn.com; live.com). This will affect all applications sent after Sunday May 20, 2007, and all future forms sent by Hotmail users.

Our issues with Hotmail are long-standing and no satisfactory resolution is currently in sight. Since we can not guarantee that TFL e-mails will reach our visitors, and because we have tried all viable solutions to fix this problem, we feel that banning Hotmail addresses is the only solution available to us.

We are in the process of informing fanlisting owners with Hotmail.com e-mail addresses of our problems with the service and how this will affect future interaction with TFL. If you do have a Hotmail.com e-mail address we request that you update your e-mail address at the Network as quickly as possible and supply us with a valid, working non-Hotmail address to list your current and upcoming fanlistings under.

To do this, please e-mail us at changeemail@thefanlistings.org FROM your current Hotmail.com account, and include your new e-mail address in the body of your e-mail. Please do not use the Change E-mail forms — there is no guarantee that they will send you the appropriate verification e-mail. Please e-mail us directly from your TFL Hotmail account.

If you choose to keep your fanlistings under your Hotmail.com address:

• You risk not receiving important network notices regarding your fanlisting and network changes.
• You will not be able to apply for new fanlistings. Hotmail.com addresses will be rejected by our application form.
• TFL will not take responsibility for non-delivery of TFL e-mail to your inbox. For example, if your fanlistings are troubled and the troubles notice does not arrive in your inbox due to our problems with Hotmail, TFL will not be held responsible if your fanlistings are removed from the network when no troubles response is received from you.

Please Note: We have done our best to contact the 890 Hotmail users listed in our database. If you have not received an urgent notice from TFL regarding Hotmail usage, then your e-mail address bounced for reasons related to: account inactivity, full mailbox, or invalid address.

We have included a full text copy of the e-mail behind the cut for those of you who have not received this message.

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This is a complete update of tlou removals for the Companies category.

Removed From Troubles (OPEN For Apps!)

Atari (Entertainment Companies); Ferret Records (Entertainment Companies); FOCUS FEATURES (Entertainment Companies); Intel (Entertainment Companies); American Eagle Outfitters (Retail Stores); Hollister Co. (Retail Stores)

This is a incomplete update of repeated neglect removals for the Companies category.

Closed (open for application!)

Delta (Entertainment Companies); SCP-Music (Entertainment Companies); Red Lobster (Restaurants)

This is a partial update of troubles report for the Companies category.

Troubled Companies (Not open for application)

The following fanlistings are scheduled for removal on May 23, 2007. If your fanlisting is listed below, please fix the problem AND reply to the troubles email!

Dead Link: 404/403

3CG Records (Entertainment Companies); Geffen (Entertainment Companies); Reprise Records (Entertainment Companies); Saddle Creek Records (Entertainment Companies); Applebees (Restaurants); KFC (Restaurants); McDonalds (Restaurants); Abercrombie & Fitch (Retail Stores); Powerspec (Retail Stores); Tooth & Nail (Retail Stores); Trader Joes (Retail Stores);

Inactivity: 2 Months +

Arby’s (Restaurants); KaDeWE (Retail Stores); T-Mobile (Telephone/Cell Phone Companies);

Inactivity: 2 Months + (0 Pending)

Forest Park Pictures (Entertainment Companies); Mute Records (Entertainment Companies); SNK Playmore (Entertainment Companies); Wong Fu Productions (Entertainment Companies); Caribou Coffee (Restaurants); Cheesecake Factory (Restaurants); Jay Jay’s (Retail Stores); New Yorker (Retail Stores); Old Navy (Retail Stores); Rareware (Retail Stores);

Navigation Issues

Konami (Retail Stores); Pret a Manger (Retail Stores); Safeway (Retail Stores)

This is a complete update of apps/finished/trouble reports/update forms & tlou for the Companies category.

Upcoming Companies

In-N-Out (Restaurants); Wendy’s (Restaurants); Build-A-Bear (Retail Stores)

Finished Companies

Texas Roadhouse (Restaurants); Garage (Retail Stores); Nandos (Retail Stores); Wal-Mart (Retail Stores)

Updated Companies

Chili’s (Restaurants); Marks & Spencer (Retail Stores)

Troubled Companies (Not open for application)

The following fanlistings are scheduled for removal on May 16, 2007. If your fanlisting is listed below, please fix the problem AND reply to the troubles email!

Too Long On Upcoming

FOCUS FEATURES (Entertainment Companies); Intel (Entertainment Companies); Ferret Records (Record Companies); American Eagle Outfitters (Retail Stores); Hollister Co. (Retail Stores)

Not Adding Pending Members or Changing Information
Atari (Entertainment Companies)

This is a announcement update of TFL Updates for the Songs: Various, Songs: Male Solo, Sports, Stage/Theatre, Transportation, Toys/Collectibles, Songs: Female Solo, Songs: Bands/Groups, Politics and Organisations, Places, Radio, Relationships: Book/Movie, Relationships: TV, Relationships: Real Life, TV Shows, TV/Movie/Book Miscellany, Hobbies and Recreation, Songs: Bands/Groups N-Z, Objects, Calendar Events, Companies, Academia, Songs: Bands/Groups 0-M, People Miscellany, Webmasters, Personalities, Websites, Sports Entertainment, Advertising/TV Channels, Nature, Mythology/Religion, Literature, Authors/Writers, Characters: Book/Movie, Characters: TV, Computer Miscellany and Internet, Comics, Arts and Design, Animation, Actors, Awards, Actresses, Adult, Animals, Albums, Directors/Producers, Episodes, Movies, Models, Music Miscellany, Musicians: Bands/Groups, Musicians: Male, Musicians: Female, Miscellaneous, Magazines/Newspapers, Fashion/Beauty, Fan Works, Food/Drinks, Games, History/Royalty, General category.

Good news! After several test e-mails, TFL e-mails are finally getting where they belong! We are expecting TFL updates to get back up and running shortly. We do apologise for the extended delay with resolving this issue - as Ally said earlier, we were waiting to hear back from e-mail providers and were unable to hurry them along. The senior staff is very grateful to Ally for all her work on this issue!

A warning to all Hotmail.com users - while e-mail is getting through, Hotmail is placing the e-mail into the “Junk Mail” folder. Please be sure to check your Junk Mail folder regularly for TFL mail! Should you find any TFL e-mail in the junk folder, you will need to select “Not Junk” on the e-mail to ensure future e-mail is sent straight to the Inbox.

Staffers will be re-sending e-mail to Hotmail.com users that was sent in early April (before we realised TFL was being blocked).

It will be good to be back up and running again; we have all missed the updates! Be prepared for a busy updating period! :)

This is a announcement update of e-mail problems for the Songs: Various, Songs: Male Solo, Sports, Stage/Theatre, Transportation, Toys/Collectibles, Songs: Female Solo, Songs: Bands/Groups, Politics and Organisations, Places, Radio, Relationships: Book/Movie, Relationships: TV, Relationships: Real Life, TV Shows, TV/Movie/Book Miscellany, Hobbies and Recreation, Songs: Bands/Groups N-Z, Objects, Calendar Events, Companies, Academia, Songs: Bands/Groups 0-M, People Miscellany, Webmasters, Personalities, Websites, Sports Entertainment, Advertising/TV Channels, Nature, Mythology/Religion, Literature, Authors/Writers, Characters: Book/Movie, Characters: TV, Computer Miscellany and Internet, Comics, Arts and Design, Animation, Actors, Awards, Actresses, Adult, Animals, Albums, Directors/Producers, Episodes, Movies, Models, Music Miscellany, Musicians: Bands/Groups, Musicians: Male, Musicians: Female, Miscellaneous, Magazines/Newspapers, Fashion/Beauty, Fan Works, Food/Drinks, Games, History/Royalty, General category.

It has been brought to our attention that mail to hotmail.com, for some accounts, has been bouncing back to TFL with the notice that hotmail.com is blocking it. As hotmail.com is a huge e-mail service, we are holding all TFL updates until we can have TFL unblocked. The senior staff is also currently looking into confirming with other large free e-mail hosts (Gmail; Yahoo) that the Network is not being black-listed.

All TFL updates are being held. Please do not worry about troubled fanlistings being removed or whether your form has gotten through at this stage. Once we have figured out and resolved the e-mail problems, forms will likely be re-sent, or we will have a leniancy period for those e-mail addresses that have recently had problems.

We apologise for these recent problems, we’ve been rather surprised by them too. We will update you as we gather more data about the problems, as well as what solutions we will be seeking (there are several that are free, but a few that may cost the Network financially). Thank you for your patience!

We have a thread over at the board about this issue. Please see here if you have any questions.