Thanks to SJ ...

... a stringer was able to get his story in tonight.

His freebie Yahoo! account was taking for-damn-ever to get the story to me. So long, in fact, it has still not arrived more than 45 minutes after he sent it.

Suddenly, he had a brainstorm. "I'll send it to you via SJ." Bingo. It was here within seconds.

So, thanks SJ.

 

You're welcome.

 

I know this isn't the first time someone has filed via SJ. Wonder how often it's done?

 

I <3 cyberspace.

 

Yeah, that was me.
I should actually thank football_bat because he was the one who inspired me, seems like I recall f_b filing a story via the PM.
The school's ISP blocked all the e-mail websites because they didn't want the kiddies looking at The Pron and such.

 

Awesome. Go SJ.

 

Had to PM a gamer once because the school had Yahoo, MSN, MySpace and Facebook blocked.

Spent a good 30 minutes trying to find a way to send, and i got the story in with 20 minutes to spare.

 

One of the stringers at my old paper couldn't get his e-mail to work or send or something, so he ended up posting the story as a comment on one of the sports blogs (that folks had edit access to so they could take it down after the fact). I think the schools had e-mails blocked, but not the newspaper site!

 

SportsJournalists.com saved my life once.

 

i wonder how many times sj has been used to "talk" about a co-worker sitting in the next desk?

 

I wish I could do that. But my computer is at a bad angle.