Simply put, a Townsman is a registered member of Rock Town Hall. Registration enables the Townsman to post comments, send brief reports from the field, and contribute Front Page posts through the Editorial Offices of RTH.
There is also an available and highly desirable designation of Townswoman, but historically, rock nerd dynamics have been known to limit use of this term.
(Courtesy of real, live Townswoman Sally Cinnamon.)
We’ve set up a pretty standard blog format. If you’re familiar with blogs you’ll probably have no problem intuitively making your way about. If not, here’s the lowdown.
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The Comments section at Rock Town Hall allows for a degree of formatting through use of specific XHTML tags, or codes. If you know a little about HTML, this will be a breeze. if you know less than that, hang on.
Rock Town Hall is open to The People. Anyone, anywhere, anytime to can visit and peruse The Hall. However, in order to comment (which we strongly encourage) you must register. Why? The answer is pretty much “Spam”. Apparently there are “robots” that troll the internet and look for places to deposit their seed. If someone is required to register it is a major deterrent to said robots.
Registering is easy. All you need is a valid email address. Fill out the registration form by clicking Register section of the sidebar. From there you will enter your login name, password and email address. An email confirmation will be sent to you. Click on the link within and, voila, you will be granted permission to tell us via comments how full of shit we are.
Note: We absolutely will not give/sell your email address to any third parties. We may send you emails about upcoming events or what-have-ya but absolutely no spam. If at anytime you want out, just send us a note, thebackoffice@rocktownhall.com, and that’s that.
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The Back Office
I’m the guy that hacked the code and built this little corner of the internet. Frankly, I had virtually no idea what I was doing.
I’m a Flash web designer, Village Green Studios, so I thought that would help, but… not so much. I plunged in and chose the b2evolution software. It looked to me like these were the tech-hippies behind the Movable Type revolution. From what I can gather, they got pissed when Movable Type went commercial and broke off to start their own free blog thang. That they were sticking it to the Man and that one of their support guys (EdB) has an avatar that looks like Jerry Garcia, were the final selling points.
I basically jumped into the deepend and this is what appeared when I came up for air.
If there is anyone out there that is a pro at this sort of thing and would like to help out… by all means… send me an email at thebackoffice[@}rocktownhall.com.
You might hear from me every once in a while when a new feature is added or modified. If you have any user issues or suggestions, feel free to send me a note and I’ll try and get back to you as soon as possible.
Please peruse the rest of the Users Guide category to learn about registering, making your posts look purdy and other user stuff.
Oh and I’m a big fan of the rock and roll. I think Lt. Hookstratten said it best-
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The Back Office
Rock Town Hall was founded to carry on and expand late-night turntable debates on self-important issues in rock. In 2002, we convened as a private discussion list among a baker’s dozen of opinionated, music-loving friends. In time we grew to a virtual Who the Hell Does He Think He Is? among rock musicians, journalists, DJs, record collectors, and assorted rock nerds. Although we continue to possess little power to influence the state of rock ‘n roll, we delight in the battle and seek the cultivation of occasionally novel perspectives on the genre.
Now we’re throwing the doors of Rock Town Hall open to You, The People! We’ve heard your charges of backroom conspiracies and midnight confessions, brokered 3-star reviews and Tuesday night gigs. Open the door, they said, and let ’em in.
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