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This is just to say "Auf Wiedersehen" ... ... Roger and Linda shall always be remembered for their kind words... ...for their genuine generosity of sharing their time... ...with poets from all over the world... ...says helmut s. poet_waiter_writer
ShowEMall!® Writers' Block is Being Closed |
 | 10/96 ~ Opened the doors to ShowEMall! Writers' Block |
| 12/96 ~ Got our first "real" submission (not family-written!) |
| 1/97 ~ First Group of 100 writings completed |
| 2/97 ~ Groups 2 and 3 completed |
| 2/97 ~ Combined Prose and Poetry into one menu |
| 3/97 ~ Ended voting for Grand Prize |
| 4/97 ~ "Closed" the site for a week to automate Web page production |
| 5/97 ~ Started on-line comments |
| 6/97 ~ Limited authors to one writing posted per Group of 100 writings |
| 8/97 ~ Limited authors to one writing posted per week (250 authors submitting) |
| 9/97 ~ Began using volunteer judges |
| 11/97 ~ Posted 10,000th submission. |
| 11/97 ~ Limited authors to one writing posted per two-week posting period (500 authors) |
| 1/98 ~ Extended posting period to one month (Over 600 authors) |
| 2/98 ~ Over 900 authors. |
| 3/98 ~ Closed posting of newcomers to the site. |
| 10/98 ~ Opened posting to all comers again. |
| 8/99 ~ 26,000 writings have been posted. |
| 9/99 ~ Getting 350,000 hits per month |
| 9/19/99 ~ Stopped taking submissions |
| 1/1/2000 ~ Removed ShowEMall! Writers' Block from the Web |
Our feelings are expressed by Linda's Goodbye Letter As for the mechanics of the shutdown, here are the plans. We will:
| Stop taking submissions immediately ( Sunday, September 19th, 1999) |
| Clean out the current queue using the same "one writing per author" scheme we've been using. |
| Stop posting groups when the number of authors in our queue is less than 100. |
| Continue judging and awarding monthly prizes until all groups have been judged. |
| Continue posting comments until the end of the millennium. |
| Remove the site from the Web on New Year's Day, 2000. |
With ShowEMall
Roger and Linda Allbritten were
paving the path for the next generation of websites
by creating a feeling of trust in webmasters and their art to display
what people wanted to have shown to all, their friends, their family and the world.
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I posted my first poetry attempts on the Allbritten's site, click here to see what it was...
01/09/09
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