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Greetings WebRing member: gnustep!

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In the 8 weeks or so since we last sent a general email to members we have made 
a LOT of changes.  This email is to "pre-announce" TWO new features:  

1.  Automated adoption of system run Rings.  Starting on the 21st of OCtober 
we'll begin adopting out the thousands of system rung Rings to members.  These 
Rings were partially or completely migrated from Yahoo but abandoned or never 
managed at all for whatever reason.  We've waited a year to allow the former 
RingMasters to claim their Rings.  Now it is time to get them into the hands of 
other enthusiastic members.  

We're adding the ability to see ONLY adoptable Rings to the WebRing directory 
because of the large number of these Rings.  Initially we'll allow contributing 
members view this categorized list of adoptable Rings as a "thank you perk" for 
having taken the time to contribute to the community in a tangible way.  This 
does NOT mean members must contribute to adopt a Ring.  Any member can 
potentially adopt a WebRing.  You should read this month's status report for 
details regarding how this will work.

2.  HTML navigation fragment specification - This will allow RingMasters to 
specify which navigation links a member site must have to be considered 
"PASSing" when tested by the system checker.  This feature will also be 
released by October 21st.  Note that this ability only applies to members using 
HTML navigation code.  Read this month's status report for details regarding 
how this will work.

Please read this and prior status reports regarding changes to the system.  
There have been many, and more are on the way!

Today's!!
http://dir.webring.com/h/status20021015

Previous but noteworthy
http://dir.webring.com/h/status20021001
http://dir.webring.com/h/status20020904
http://dir.webring.com/h/status20020816
http://dir.webring.com/h/status20020801
http://dir.webring.com/h/status20020723
http://dir.webring.com/h/status20020716

Nearly 2000 members have taken a minute to contribute $5 or more to WebRing to 
help support a great community.  Thank you!  We appreciate it and hope you're 
starting to see the affects in features and performance.

If you're not one of these we hope that you will be motivated to help support 
WebRing operations and suppress ads while you use WebRing (or promote your 
Site(s), Rings, advertise or suppress ads on your Ring(s), etc.).  To be 
honest, we'd like to see a lot more of you step up and join us.

Please read more about this feature at
http://dir.webring.com/h/promo3

As always, best wishes,

The WebRing Team

To contribute to WebRing you can use PayPal (or go to the promo page link aboce 
to get our address if you wish to use regular mail):

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