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You can use this form to guide you in preparing the information we need to include you in the Members’ Area. However, you don’t have to use the form: you can just send the information and files by e-mail to the curator of the Gallery if you prefer, or if the form doesn’t seem to work right in your browser.

Before you start

First, look again at the Gallery and notice the five types of pages we use: Contact information, Home page, Journal, Personal FAQs and Yearbook. Every member in the gallery has a Contact information page; all other page types are optional.

If you want to have a Yearbook page, you’ll need a picture. It can be one that’s on the web already or one you send us from your computer. Be sure you know where it is and that you’ve done any cropping or adjustments you’d like before you continue to the forms below.

If you choose to have a Yearbook page, you may include a sample of your voice. For that, we need a short wave file (no more than 15 seconds). It’s best to leave a little space at the beginning and the end; unless you really know your way around audio, in which case feel free to send us a nice, clean MP3 file that can be posted as is.

The posting of Personal FAQs (or “pFAQs”) is a long-standing RMTA technique for getting to know one another. pFAQs are just a series of item labels you choose (like “NAME:” or “BIRTHPLACE:”) followed by the appropriate information. If you have something like a pFAQ already on the web that you’d like to use, you can just supply the URL; otherwise, you can save this model:
right-click this link and choose Save Target As...
as a text file, edit it to say whatever you like and select it for “PFAQ (FILE)” in the form below, and we’ll put it in the Gallery for you.

What will we do with all this information?

We’ll put it in the Members’ Area pages of this web site. Now, just in case this isn’t obvious, this is a site on the World Wide Web. It’s accessible to anyone, and it’s indexed by search engines. Nothing you choose to have us put on the site is private, and there’s nothing we can do about that. We will attempt to update members’ information when changes come to our attention, but to be sure your pages remain accurate, notify us of changes by e-mailing the curator of the Gallery.

If at any time you ask us to remove you from the Members’ Area, we will do that as quickly as possible. We cannot remove references to your pages from search engines’ listings, though; once the pages are removed from our site, the search engines will eventually remove them from their listings when they discover they no longer exist.

Contact (rmta.org staff only)

In case we need to contact you for more information and so we can let you know when you have been added to the Members’ Area, please give us an address we can use to send you e-mail. This address is just for us, not for your Members’ area pages. We won’t give it to anyone except people who are maintaining the www.rmta.org web site.

Names

Your names are used at the top of Gallery pages and in lists.

GALLERY NAME   I don’t want to be in the Gallery, just on the lists.
This is the name that will show in the index at the left side of the Gallery and in large type at the top of the Contact and Yearbook pages (and the Personal FAQs page if we build and host it). It should be a short, unique name by which most people who frequent rmt-a will know you.
LIST NAME   I don’t want to be on any lists, just in the Gallery.
This is the name that will show in lists. It should include your Gallery Name, but it might also include your real name or a common screen name (since those won’t show in lists, like they do at the top of Gallery pages). For example, Angela’s Gallery Name is just “Angela,” but her List Name is “Angela Reid”; “Cheryl” is shown as “Cheryl LaFountain (Trinity)” in lists. At present we have lists of Birthdays, Instant Messenger IDs and Journals and Web Pages.
REAL NAME
SCREEN NAMES
If you choose to give us your Real Name and/or Screen Names, they will be shown below your Gallery Name on Contact information, Personal FAQs and Yearbook pages. Screen Names are any names in addition to your Gallery Name and your Real Name by which you are (or were) known on the Internet.
Basic Information

This information is used in the Gallery and in lists. None of this information is required. Only give it to us if you want it to show up in the Members’ area!

BIRTHDAY
We can use the day and month alone if you don’t want to tell us the year.
MYERS-BRIGGS
Myers-Briggs types are included in the Birthdays list... I don’t know why, but they did it that way before I ever got here, so I left it. You can take a test if you don’t know your Myers-Briggs type and want to find out.
LOCATION
Where do you live? You can tell us your town or general area, state or province (if applicable) and country; as much or as little as you choose.
E-MAIL ADDRESS
We’ll cloak it a bit to discourage address harvesters, but, still, only enter your e-mail address here if you want it shown in the Gallery.
AOL INSTANT MESSENGER ID
ICQ NUMBER
YAHOO! MESSENGER NAME
We show Instant Messenger IDs on the Contact information page and in a separate list.
Web pages

There are three kinds of web pages we can link from the member’s Gallery.

HOME PAGE
If you have your own web site and you’d like it referenced in the Members’ area, enter the URL.
JOURNAL
If you have an online journal and you’d like it referenced in the Members’ area, enter the URL.
PFAQ (URL)
If you have a personal FAQ already on the web that you’d like referenced in the Members’ area, enter the URL.
PFAQ (FILE)
If you’ve saved your personal FAQ as a text file and you’d like us to put it in the Gallery, select the file here.
Contact information page

Everyone in the Gallery has a Contact information page. The Contact information page includes most of the information from the sections above.

It is possible to add special items to the Contact information page. Aimee provides an example: she has her own newsgroup, so we put an extra entry for that on her Contact information page. If you have something you want added to your Contact information page, type it below.

Yearbook page

The only thing you have to have on a Yearbook page is a picture.

PICTURE (URL)
If there’s a picture already on the web you’d like us to use, give us the URL.
PICTURE (FILE)
If the picture you want us to use is in a file on your hard drive, select it here.
VOICE
If you have a sample of your voice that you’d like included on your Yearbook page, select the file here.
FIRST POST TO RMT-A
If you can find your first post on Google Groups and give us the URL, that’s best. Otherwise, tell us about (or exactly, if you know) when you first posted, what name you used and (if you want) what you wrote about.
R.M.T-A ACTIVITIES
OUTSIDE OF R.M.T-A
This could be your vocation, avocation, hobbies... whatever tells us who are you, and what do you do, that’s most important to you.
FAVORITE TORI AMOS ALBUM
FAVORITE R.M.T.A MEMORY

It is possible to add special items to the Yearbook page. Burrito Beth provides an example: she has a “Tori Story” on the web to which we’ve linked. If you have something you want added to your Yearbook page, type it below.

Favorite Quotes

Favorite Quotes appear at the end of Personal FAQs pages and at the bottom of Yearbook pages. If you selected a text file to send us containing your pFAQ and you indicated in it which quotes should appear on your Yearbook page, you don’t need to type them again here. Otherwise, you can add up to four quotes to the bottom of your Yearbook page by entering them below.

If the author of a quote is someone who is in the Gallery, use the person's Gallery name and check the “Gallery member” box; then we’ll make the name a link to the person’s pages in the Gallery.

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