Here's an entry composed here.  Once again Blogger is a pain in the ass at the other site.

Rebecca, Sex and Politics and Screeds and Attitude, has given up attempting to blog tonight as a result of this nonsense.

And it's nonsense.  They need to get their act together. 

Enough on that topic.

A number of visitors have come to this site recently.  There are questions via e-mail from many.

First off, and the automated e-mail that goes out states this, if you want to be quoted, please note that.  If you didn't in your e-mail and then read the automated one, just reply "I want to be quoted" in full or in part.

Between attempting to get the original site to display, I've been going through the e-mails.

Seven people used the function here to e-mail and noted sites that they enjoyed.  Information Clearing House, Truth Out, Working for Change, Alternet and Bartcop are great sites.

We link to Bartcop at the original site as a permalink.  We also link to Peek, Alternet's blog.

We're a new site and links are added slowly so members can get to know them.

At this site, which is a backup site, there are no permalinks.

I emphasized BuzzFlash because it's one of the sites I started with.  Buzz, The Daily Howler, Bartcop and a few others are the ones still around.  Others, like Media Whores Online, are no more.

I've learned a great deal from BuzzFlash and continue to learn from them, when I actually have the time to surf online.

Those who visit Rebecca's site or saw The Third Estate Sunday Review's roundtable this week (no links because those sites are down so I'm not doing any links at all in this post) know that the issue of e-mail is one that everyone's exploring.

In the early days (from November until January), everyone who wrote got a personal reply.

I don't have that kind of time now because the volume of e-mail has increased (and continues to increase).

I am still reading all the e-mail but when it tops 1000 a day, that's often difficult and I do fall behind.

My apologies to those who feel they're not being read promptly.  I've spent hours trying to get into Blogger and alternating that with reading e-mails.  Even with the bulk of the last four to five hours devoted to e-mails, I still have 296 unread e-mails.

It is for this reason that I'm not able to do an e-mail asking,  "Do you want to be quoted?"

Members know that they have to say so otherwise their e-mail is considered private. 

But 62 e-mails came in from visitors to this site (the mirror site) who may have wanted to be quoted.  I don't have time to reply to everyone asking,  "Do you want to be quoted?  In part or in full?"

So if you didn't express your desire to be quoted, don't expect that you will be.

Rebecca's opinions on e-mails are up on her blog.  People can read them there.

However, I believe that members make the site worth visiting.  Suggestions, not just quotes, determine the content.

But as the visitors increase, I feel it's important to note (and it's in the automated reply) that I'm not able to reply to every e-mail.  There are just too many.

I'm trying to figure out some way to address this issue but am frankly not coming up with anything new.

This isn't much of an entry, my apologies.

I had wanted to carry over posts that are still not up here to this site this evening.  But that's not possible because I can't see those entries.

It's honestly pretty depressing.

Even if it's only at this site, there will be a morning post on Wednesday's New York Times.