Updates

This is a complete update of all forms for the Miscellaneous category.

Upcoming
Veganism (Concepts and Ideas)

Finished
Cigarettes: Camel Signature Blends (Tobacco & Drugs)

Updated
Colours: Pastel (Colours); Violet (Colours); Fate (Concepts and Ideas);

Removed from Troubles (open for apps)
Colours: Dark (Colours); Tranquility (Concepts and Ideas); Aromatherapy (Un-Categorised); Jokes (Un-Categorised)

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

Removed from Troubles (not open for apps)
Pink (Colours); Euphoria (Concepts and Ideas); Individuality (Concepts and Ideas); Laziness (Concepts and Ideas); Obsession (Concepts and Ideas);

Troubles
The following fanlistings are scheduled for removal tomorrow. If your fanlisting is listed below, please fix the problem and reply to the troubles email.

Colours: Dark (Colours); Tranquility (Concepts and Ideas); Aromatherapy (Un-Categorised); Jokes (Un-Categorised)

This is a announcement update of network policies for the Objects, Miscellaneous, General category.

This announcement is regarding TFL’s stance on e-mail change requests/fanlisting downtime reports and troubles immunity. While we, as a Network, will attempt to respond to requests on a timely basis, we currently can not give you a guarantee that your fanlisting will not slip through the cracks, or that we will be able to inform our staffers/process the request as soon as it is received.

For this reason, we urge owners submitting these forms to keep an eye on our updates blog and also their inboxes. If you have not received a reply from us confirming that we have passed on your downtime information, or that your e-mail address has been changed, within 3-4 days after submitting it then keep an eye out for problems with your fanlistings.

While we feel that as a Network, we have a responsibility to act promptly to requests, things can hold us up. This means that having you keeping an eye out for your fanlistings will ensure that your fanlisting will not be troubled or removed from the Network unnecessarily.

However, in the event that your form is received and not responded to within a reasonable amount of time and you receive a troubles notice for your fanlistings, you are obligated to contact us as soon as possible to inquire about your pending form(s). If it is due to an error on our part (be it a lag-time in response or otherwise) we will remove the troubles issue from your fanlisting’s record. However, we must stress that you contact us as soon as possible so we can begin to resolve the issue for you.

Also, we have been discussing the Network’s stance towards drugs and narcotics. It has been two years since the Network imposed its rule of not re-approving fanlistings for ‘hard drugs’.

We are not changing our current stance towards drugs that are illegal (i.e., heroin), however, we are allowing our staffers to consider subjects that may be in the grey area on a case-by-case basis. For subjects that are legal in some countries or used for medical purposes (i.e., marijuana), we feel that approval is okay. Furthermore, we have relaxed our stance on the approval of drug paraphenalia. We leave it up to the Miscellaneous staffer to use his or her best judgment at the time of the approval regarding whether the subject should be listed in our directory. If you are unsure if your fanlisting would be open for application, please feel free to approach the category staffer (Miscellaneous) or the senior staff for discussion.

This is a complete update of all forms for the Miscellaneous category.

This is everything in my inbox. If you did not receive a reply to a form you sent, please resend. :)

Upcoming
Curiosity (Concepts and Ideas); Cigarettes: Camel Signature Blends (Tobacco & Drugs)

Finished
Clumsiness (Concepts and Ideas)

Updated
Lilac (Colours); Glamour (Concepts and Ideas); Magic (Concepts and Ideas); Passion (Concepts and Ideas)

Troubles
The following fanlistings are scheduled for removal on September 1, 2007. If your fanlisting is listed below, please fix the problem and reply to the troubles email.

Dead Link
Pink (Colours); Tranquility (concepts and Ideas); Aromatherapy (Un-Categorised); Jokes (Un-Categorised)

Hiatus: Long-Term
Laziness (Concepts and Ideas)

Inactivity: 2 Months +
Colours: Dark (Colours)

Rules: “Will Not Add You”
Euphoria (Concepts and Ideas); Individuality (Concepts and Ideas); Obsession (Concepts and Ideas)

This is a complete update of applications, finished, updated, and closed for the Miscellaneous category.

Upcoming
Clumsiness (Concepts and Ideas); Criticism (Concepts and Ideas); Nightmares (Un-Categorised)

Finished
Perfectionism (Concepts and Ideas)

Updated
Creativity (Concepts and Ideas); Insomnia (Concepts and Ideas); Introversion (Concepts and Ideas); Obsession (Concepts and Ideas); Telekinesis (Concepts and Ideas)

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

Attention: Iva of iva[@]supersonicsquirrel.net, please contact me ASAP regarding a troubles issue. Your email seems to be bouncing.

Removed from Network (open for apps)
Puce (Colours); Vanity (Concepts and Ideas); Salvia Divinorum (Tobacco and Drugs)

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

Removed from Troubles (not open for apps)
Green (Colours); Elegance (Concepts and Ideas); Peyote (Tobacco and Drugs)

Pending Removal
The following fanlistings are scheduled for removal tomorrow. If your fanlisting is listed below, please reply to the troubles email and fix the problem to avoid having your fanlisting removed!

Puce (Colours); Peace (Concepts and Ideas); Vanity (Concepts and Ideas); Salvia Divinorum (Tobacco and Drugs)

This is a complete update of finished, updated, closed, troubles, and overdue for the Miscellaneous category.

Finished
Rose (Colours)

Updated
Karma (Concepts and Ideas)

Closed (open for apps)
Roaccutane (Tobacco and Drugs)

Troubles
The following fanlistings are scheduled for removal on July 17, 2007. If your fanlisting is listed below, please reply to the troubles email and fix the problem to avoid having your fanlisting removed!

Inactivity: 2 Months +
Green (Colours); Peace (Concepts and Ideas); Salvia Divinorum (Tobacco and Drugs)

Inactivity: 2 Months (+0 Pending)
Peyote (Tobacco and Drugs)

Navigation: Broken Pages
Puce (Colours)

Navigation: Script Errors
Vanity (Concepts and Ideas)

Overdue
Elegance (Concepts and Ideas)

Update Date: No Date
Vanity (Concepts and Ideas)

This is a complete update of upcoming, finished, updated, and closed for the Miscellaneous category.

This update is everything in my inbox except for one application, which should be processed soon.

Upcoming
Perfectionism (Concepts and Ideas)

Finished
Plum (Colours); Musicality (Concepts and Ideas); Pro-Life (Concepts and Ideas); Cigarettes: Marlboro Lights (Tobacco and Drugs)

Updated
Paranoia (Concepts and Ideas)

This is a complete update of applications, finished, updated, and closed for the Miscellaneous category.

Upcoming
Plum (Colours); Rose (Colours); Elegance (Concepts and Ideas); Musicality (Concepts and Ideas); Pro-Life (Concepts and Ideas)

Finished
Teal (Colours); Humour (Concepts and Ideas); Bibliotherapy (Un-Categorised)

Updated
Optimism (Concepts and Ideas); Romance (Concepts and Ideas); Scents (Un-Categorised)

Closed (open for apps)
Perfectionism (Concepts and Ideas)

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

Removed from Troubles (open for apps)
Colours: Primary (Colours); Plum (Colours); Assertiveness (Concepts and Ideas); Elegance (Concepts and Ideas); Pro-Life (Concepts and Ideas)

This is a complete update of all forms for the Miscellaneous category.

Upcoming
Teal (Colours); Humour (Concepts and Ideas); Cigarettes: Marlboro Lights (Tobacco and Drugs); Bibliotherapy (Un-Categorised)

Finished
Mauve (Colours); Purple (Colours); Pessimism (Concepts and Ideas); Respect (Concepts and Ideas);

Removed from Troubles (not open for apps)
Peach (Colours); Independence (Concepts and Ideas); Money: Euro (Un-Categorised); Quotes (Un-Categorised)

Pending Removal
The following fanlistings are scheduled for removal tomorrow. If your fanlisting is listed below, please fix the problem and reply to the troubles email!

Colours: Primary (Colours); Plum (Colours); Assertiveness (Concepts and Ideas); Elegance (Concepts and Ideas); Pro-Life (Concepts and Ideas)

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 all forms for the Miscellaneous category.

This update covers all forms in my inbox except contact forms with a hotmail address.

Upcoming
Mauve (Colours); Respect (Concepts and Ideas)

Finished
Glamour (Concepts and Ideas)

Updated
Beauty (Concepts and Ideas)

Troubles
The following fanlistings are scheduled for removal May 24, 2007. If your fanlisting is listed below, please fix the problem and reply to the troubles email!

Dead Link
Colours: Primary (Colours); Plum (Colours)

Inactivity: 2 Months +
Peach (Colours); Pro-Life (Concepts and Ideas); Quotes (Un-Categorised)

Inactivity: 2 Months + (0 Pending)
Independence (Concepts and Ideas)

Overdue
Assertiveness (Concepts and Ideas); Elegance (Concepts and Ideas)

TFL Link: No Link
Money: Euro (Un-Categorised)

This is a complete update of applications, finished, and troubles removals for the Miscellaneous category.

Back on Upcoming (New Owner)
Perfectionism (Concepts and Ideas)

Finished
Destiny (Concepts and Ideas); Passion (Concepts and Ideas)

Removed from Troubles (open for apps)
Peter Pan Ideology (Concepts and Ideas); Respect (Concepts and Ideas)

This is a complete update of applications, finished, updated, closed, and pending removals for the Miscellaneous category.

Upcoming
Destiny (Concepts and Ideas); Pessimism (Concepts and Ideas)

Finished
Magic (Concepts and Ideas); Salvia Divinorum (Tobacco and Drugs); To-Do Lists (Un-Categorised)

Updated
Colours: Iridescent (Colours); Colours: Metallic (Colours); Introversion (Concepts and Ideas)

Removed from Troubles (not open for apps)
Infatuation (Concepts and Ideas)

Troubles
The following fanlistings are due for removal tomorrow. If your fanlisting is listed below, please fix the problem and reply to the troubles email!

Perfectionism (Concepts and Ideas); Peter Pan Ideology (Concepts and Ideas); Respect (Concepts and Ideas)

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.

This is a complete update of all forms for the Miscellaneous category.

Upcoming
Assertiveness (Concepts and Ideas); Elegance (Concepts and Ideas); Glamour (Concepts and Ideas); Magic (Concepts and Ideas); Passion (Concepts and Ideas)

Finished
Azure (Colours); Violet (Colours); Insomnia (Concepts and Ideas); Trust (Concepts and Ideas)

Updated
Black (Colours);

Removed from Troubles (not open for apps)
Alone Time (Concepts and Ideas); Trust (Concepts and Ideas)

Pending Removal
The following fanlistings are due for removal tomorrow. If your fanlisting is listed below, please fix the problem and reply to the troubles email!

Infatuation (Concepts and Ideas); Perfectionism (Concepts and Ideas); Peter Pan Ideology (Concepts and Ideas); Respect (Concepts and Ideas)

This is a complete update of overdue, troubles, and report forms for the Miscellaneous category.

Troubles
The following fanlistings are scheduled for removal on April 8, 2007. If your fanlisting is listed below, please fix the problem and reply to the troubles email!

Dead Link
Respect (Concepts and Ideas)

Inactivity: 2 Months+
Infatuation (Concepts and Ideas); Perfectionism (Concepts and Ideas); Peter Pan Ideology (Concepts and Ideas)

Inactivity: Pending Members Not Added/Updated
Alone Time (Concepts and Ideas)

Overdue
Trust (Concepts and Ideas)