Ridecamp Admin Trivia--Guest Posting

["Linda B. Merims" <lbm@naisp.net>]

Karen Standefer hrschk@yahoo.com said:
>REFERENCED POST:
>>Please since you are not a member of ridecamp and are
>>posting as a guest, pay a little attention to the posts that
>>are telling you most of us are really tired of the barefoot
>>arguements.  Susan K <<
>
>Welp, I made a donation to Steph because I thought RC to be a useful forum
>for us all.  I simply chose not to get the mails or the digests, so I post
>as a guest because I can't "reply".  However, I am a paying member (paid
>$50 when she started charging).

You don't have to post as "guest."

A little known Ridecamp fact I tripped over about a year ago is
that you can register for Ridecamp on the Ridecamp Registration
Form:

http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp/Register.asp

and where it asks you for Subscription Type, pick "Post Only."

You won't get any direct emails, either individual posts or the
digests.

Instead, you keep up with traffic by using the Ridecamp archive:

http://www.endurance.net/RideCamp/archives/

I always just use the Date Index (default) and follow things
in chronological order, the same way they'd show up in
your email inbox.

When you see something you want to comment on, you
send it yourself, using your email program, addressed to
ridecamp@endurance.net, and it works just like everybody
else's postings, showing up as being from you and not
from "guest."  You just cut and paste the relevant text
from your web browser to your email program.  There is
no need to go to the Ridecamp "guest" page and go
through all that rigamarole.

Existing users can change their subscription on the
Ridecamp Subscription Management page:

http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp/logon.asp

The only disadvantage to this style of participation is that
the archive used to get updated about every hour, but in the
last few weeks it only seems to get updated two or three
times a day.  So, it is a much less dynamic form of participation
than it used to be, even just a few weeks ago.

Linda B. Merims
lbm@naisp.net
Massachusetts, USA

(Note:  I am *not* an administrator of Ridecamp!--I just
used to run a list and I notice these things...)