Is my contribution welcome?
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- This website is mainly
meant for current ESTA GB members - not just West
Midlanders - who are all very welcome to submit
notice and reviews of local ESTA events to our
Events section*, to list themselves as a Teacher
in our Student Services section, to join in the
debates in our Teacher Talk section, and to place
small ads in any part of our Whatnots section.
Sorry, non-members, but in this case it really is
members only. You know how to join, don't you?
- String students at College
or Conservatoire and members of our sister
organisations worldwide (E*TAs and *STAs) are
also welcome to get involved in our Teacher Talk
debates.
- Anyone who wants to can
list themselves as a Student and suggest useful
(generally cost-free) string teaching resources
on the web in our Student Services section, but
the links list is not for promoting paid-for
services or publications. Anyone can also send
jokes to Whatnots, but they only go in if I like
them.
*(don't forget to tell
"News & Views" and the ESTA national
website estaweb.org.uk as well!)
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Is there any charge?
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- No. If you're eligible you
get in free, and if you're not you don't get in
at all.
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How about a photo?
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- You can attach a small .jpg
or .gif to a Teacher/Student/Sales/Wants entry,
but size is strictly limited to a measly maximum
120 pixels wide by 150 pixels high (except in
Events reports). Sorry to be so mingy, but
otherwise these pages could take too long to
load. If you send anything bigger I'll hack it
down if I put it in at all.
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Who do I send it to?
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- E-mail the text you would
like to go in to estawm
@ tiscali.co.uk. You
must include the word ESTA
(plus anything else you want) in the subject area
of your e-mail because I will be using this as a
'spam' test, and messages not including that word
in the subject are liable to get blasted unread.
- Remember, I need your real
name to be sure you are an eligible contributor,
even if you want your contribution to appear
anonymously.
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How long is it for?
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- Small ads of any kind go
out of date. I will assume, unless you
specifically ask otherwise, that Sales and Wants
and Student listing entries will expire in about
3 months, as will Public Notices unless they
refer to dated events and will expire as the date
passes. Teacher listings I will assume are good
for a few years, but I may ask you to confirm
they are still good every so often.
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How to get in touch with you.
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- Please remember to mention
how anybody who needs to can get in touch with
you, or your entry may be a bit pointless. Think
how they should do this. I don't recommend
publicising your home address and phone number
together (or burglars could ring to see if you're
in.) Women especially might think twice about
making their phone number public.
- Unfortunately e-mail
addresses on websites can get picked up by
spammers and virus circulations. It's up to you
to be satisfied your mailbox is protected. The
trick I have used on this site (e.g. two blocks
up from here) is to insert sneaky spaces on
either side of the @ sign, so it's just text
coloured blue. To human eyes it looks like a live
hyperlink but it isn't really. This is probably
the safest way to give out your contact.
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