-------------------------------------------------------------------- We received your membership information and dues, and you are now a member of the Shoujo Anime Club! Thank you very much! -------------------------------------------------------------------- Some reminders: (1) Your membership requires that you keep a working email address. This is so we can send you updates and request notifications. If your email begins to "bounce" we might have to put your account on hold until you contact us and supply a working email address. If your account is on hold for more than 3 months, you'll have to ask to become a new member all over again. (2) You are also enrolled in the Shoujo Anime Club Mailing List. A mailing list is a convenient way for members to exchange information and stay in touch. You are welcome to use the mailing list to arrange trades or talk about anime or Japanese culture or any other topic related to the club. To write to the mailing list, write to "shoujo_anime_club@quixium.com". Any message written to the mailing list is forwarded to all members. You'll see messages begin to appear in your mailbox from the club mailing list as time goes on. I'd like to encourage you as a new member to introduce yourself by writing a message describing who you are, where you live, and your interests in Japanese pop culture. This mailing list is very small, less than 180 members, and many members are from distant countries. The list is private and moderated (I check messages to keep out spam, trash, non-members, and other meaningless mail.) Your name is never revealed unless you sign your messages. Only your email address is visible. If you never write a message, no one will ever know you are on the list. (This type of behavior is called "lurking" and is also OK...) However, I encourage you to sign your messages and let people get to know you. If you find that the mailing list is too active, and you want fewer messages sent to your email address, you can switch to the "digest" list. Digest members get all the messages of the day sent to them as one single message in the morning instead of several individual messages during the day. To request the digest instead of the mailing list, just write to "barbara@technogirls.org". (Send change requests to Barbara directly -- Do not send such messages to the mailing list please. All changes are made by hand.) Receiving mail from the mailing list, either as individual messages or as daily digests, is not required. You can always view the latest tapelists on the club's private web site, and your request confirmations are always sent to you by private email, not through the mailing list. To remove yourself totally from the mailing list, just write to "barbara@technogirls.org". (3) Remember that you don't need to send addressed labels when you request tapes. We print them for you. We will assume that the address we have on file is the right one for you. If it isn't, be sure and send email. (4) Be sure you read the request instructions carefully. We use a unique method we call the "Rotating List System." After you get this message, you'll get a message containing request instructions. It is possible that you may have to wait for a new request list to be posted before you can do your first request. (5) If you happen to live nearby, you are welcome to attend our anime showings. They are irregularly scheduled, and will be announced on the mailing list. (6) Our non-guarantee: "If we receive a request from you, we'll make some tapes of unpredictable quality and send them to you by mail within 90 days." We don't guarantee that they'll be delivered, or that you'll like them, or that they'll be what you expected, or that they'll be free of video or sound problems, or that the post office won't smash them, tax them, seize them, lose them, or any of the other unpleasant things government mail services sometimes do. We just guarantee to mail you one tape for each tape you request. They might not even be the titles you wanted. It isn't a very good guarantee, but we aren't a business. It just means we'll try to give you exactly what you want but we can't be sure we'll succeed. But to make up for this, we also have a promise: "If you get a tape you don't like, send it back to us within 90 days and we'll try to make a better copy for you. You pay the shipping back to us, we'll pay the shipping back to you." This is a "no-fault" promise. It's good whether the problem was our fault, yours, the mail service, or whoever. This way of dealing with problems seems to make everyone satisfied in the end, so far, and it eliminates bad feelings since we don't have to think about whose fault it was. If you need to send a tape back, send email asking for instructions first. (Note, however, this assumes that the tape is still one that can be recorded on. It doesn't apply if the tape is smashed, ruined, lost, or damaged by your VCR.) Hopefully, you won't ever have to worry about returning a tape. Sometimes people say we're one of the best quality fansub clubs anywhere, or the nicest to deal with. That may or may not be true, but it sure is nice to hear. We want that to be how it is when requesting from us. We won't run away with your money, or let the turnover time get to be many months, or use junk quality tape or machines, or pretend we didn't get your email. We sincerely try very hard to do the best we can. "Ganbarimasu." (9) Including a gratuity with your tape request earns our sincere gratitude and helps us continue subtitling! However, doing so is absolutely NOT required in any way, and won't speed your request (we're very fast anyway.) We're just glad you're here. If you're a starving student, you probably need it more than we do, since none of us here is showing any signs of starving these days... (*-*) (10) Our private web site for the club is: http://www.technogirls.org/sac/ The private web site requires a login with password. Your password and instructions appear later in this message. Passwords will be changing frequently. New passwords will be given to you by private email, so please watch for them. If you lose your password, you will have to write Barbara to get it again. Do not give anyone else your password. Doing so will violate the security of our club. (11) Speaking of security: as a member of a private club, you are expected to respect the privacy of other members. Do not copy mailing list messages to other outsiders, or to web pages, or outside mailing lists. Don't forward SAC email to anyone. Don't publicize our club or activities. ---------------- Thank you for joining our Shoujo Fansub club. We're a small group -- (a little over 150) and I think this will work out really well. We don't talk about our group publicly, or advertise, -- this is a "hidden" club. You are now a part of the anime fan "underground". Barbara ...also, Gloria says "Hi!" ...and Jennifer says "...can't talk now, I got another paper I gotta turn in tomorrow...." (ps -- be sure and verify your address... this is what will appear on your mailing label, that we use to send your tapes... ================================================================ Below, you'll see more information telling you how to request tapes. Then a third section will give you a summary of your membership information -- check it for errors. This part will also contain your web page password. ================================================================