Thanks to SJ ...

[Inky_Wretch]

... 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.

 

[Angola!]

You're welcome.

 

[Cadet]

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

 

[Flash]

I <3 cyberspace.

 

[JayFarrar]

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.

 

[luckyducky]

Awesome. Go SJ.

 

[KYSportsWriter]

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.

 

[luckyducky]

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!

 

[mike311gd]

SportsJournalists.com saved my life once.

 

[Tom Petty]

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

 

[mike311gd]

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

 

[Moderator1]

We're a full service site here, folks.
I sent some info to a paper about an event they were unable to staff via PM.
SJ - a necessary part of every journalist's tool box.

We need to put that on a t-shirt.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

We're a full service site here, folks.
I sent some info to a paper about an event they were unable to staff via PM.
SJ - a necessary part of every journalist's tool box.

We need to put that on a t-shirt.

SportsJournalists.com
Learn it.
Live it.
Love it.

 

[shotglass]

We're a full service site here, folks.
I sent some info to a paper about an event they were unable to staff via PM.
SJ - a necessary part of every journalist's tool box.

We need to put that on a t-shirt.

He said "box."

Huh-huh. Huh-huh.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

Who was working the desk here last night?

 

[Big Circus]

We're a full service site here, folks.
I sent some info to a paper about an event they were unable to staff via PM.
SJ - a necessary part of every journalist's tool box.

We need to put that on a t-shirt.

I was just going to mention that - unless Moddy's done that more than once, I was the desker that got the info. Thanks SJ!

 

[imjustagirl]

We're a full service site here, folks.
I sent some info to a paper about an event they were unable to staff via PM.
SJ - a necessary part of every journalist's tool box.

We need to put that on a t-shirt.

He said "box."

Huh-huh. Huh-huh.

TWICE as funny because it came from shottie!

 

[mustangj17]

We're a full service site here, folks.
I sent some info to a paper about an event they were unable to staff via PM.
SJ - a necessary part of every journalist's tool box.

We need to put that on a t-shirt.

Or on a thong.

 

[RossLT]

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

That's why you text message your colleague, like Petrie and I used to do.

 

[Football_Bat]

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.

Actually it was one of my writers, with me on the desk. He's done it twice — it was his original idea. Worked like a charm.

Glad to be of service. (And word to the wise: don't try to file via e-mail from Forney, Texas.)