We've always taken the view that it's a fundamental right of the author to decide where their story is posted. Even more so because we insist on passing them to a GE before they are uploaded to the Archive rather than allow authors to upload them direct as most other archives do.

So automatic upload would result either in editing changes being made to a story without the author's permission or abandoning the GE process before upload. Neither of which would be acceptable.

And of course there are many reasons for not submitting - but can it really be that authors today are more forgetful, busy or confused than their counterparts of a few years ago? Seems unlikely! laugh

If the Archive isn't as important to authors today then it's not an issue. But if it is still valuable then I'd simply ask that you take a moment to find the time to submit or you may find it's a lost resource. We can't exist without your support and submissions.

Which seems an opportune time to say that any of the stories above that haven't yet been submitted would be welcome now.That upload queue is looking sparse. wink

LabRat :-)


Athos: If you'd told us what you were doing, we might have been able to plan this properly.
Aramis: Yes, sorry.
Athos: No, no, by all means, let's keep things suicidal.

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