Suggestion: One restricted-posting forum for all legislative/regulatory/critical news

[zapped]

How much do I owe you again for that??

Absolutely nothing!

You know me, I always call it like I see it. No one could ever accuse me otherwise

 

[Katya]

And in related news--here we go!

CASAA: First Call to Action for FDA Proposed Regulations - Consumer Request for an Extension of Comment Period

 

[Kent Brooks]

I agree in premise, a central location would be nice in terms of herding the cats... MEOW.

Issue: Participation in the CASAA forum is already meager (views). Would it be possible to sticky it site-wide?

 

[Roger_Lafayette]

This is something else that the new forum could help address - see post #9 here in which Bill points out that there are now two threads for MN in legislation (actualy I think there are three, come to think of it - all involving the same indoor vaping=smoking ban):

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...51-its-about-over-minnesota.html#post13126356

 

[sonicdsl]

This is something else that the new forum could help address - see post #9 here in which Bill points out that there are now two threads for MN in legislation (actualy I think there are three, come to think of it - all involving the same indoor vaping=smoking ban):

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...51-its-about-over-minnesota.html#post13126356

I'll look at that one.

In the future, please report the duplicate thread with a link to the original so we can take care of those.

 

[sonicdsl]

Hmmmm.... where did these come from??

Advocates' Updates - FDA

Advocates' Updates - USA

 

[aubergine]

Oh, very good - thanks!

 

[Katya]

Hmmmm.... where did these come from??

Advocates' Updates - FDA

Advocates' Updates - USA

WOOT!

Thanks, Sonic!

 

[sonicdsl]

You're welcome... but Roly did the heavy lifting

 

[Stosh]

Might Roly have email addresses for some of the people that would be given access permission, to invite them to try it out? I know I'm pressing my luck, he can't have a lot of free time, apologize to him for me....

 

[sonicdsl]

At this time, we are limiting the new forums to those that are our stalwart warriors in the fight for vaping, such as CASAA directors, Bill Godshall, etc. We'll see how it goes from there.

 

[patkin]

Ooops... late to the party.... deleted it.

 

[Katya]

Sonic, the link to CA CAT (the blue date May 21) doesn't work for me. It takes me to the home page--not to CA CAT.

Am I doing something wrong?

 

[rolygate]

Fixed

 

[Roger_Lafayette]

I'll look at that one.

In the future, please report the duplicate thread with a link to the original so we can take care of those.

I was only using that as an example, I wasn't trying to create work for you ;-)

Looks great Roly ... but now that the hard work has been done, maybe it might be nice to start getting it populated?

Here are a few blogs/posts that I'd like to take the liberty of nominating:

1) C.V.'s 3-part series that starts here: Scientific claims in the FDA deeming regulation (part 1 of ???) | Anti-THR Lies and related topics

2) CASAA's press release, background, and CTA

3) Some of Bill's updates, like maybe his original letter that he posted and/or some selections from Bill Godshall - Tobacco Harm Reduction Updates

4) Mike Siegel and Brad Rodu have some great blog posts, like Bill Godshall - Tobacco Harm Reduction Updates and http://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2014/04/fda-gives-huge-gift-to-combustible.html (as just two examples).

(Plenty more ex.s where those came from.)

Two points about mechanics:

-- Some of these folks may be too busy to do the posts themselves. So either (a) a thread could be started on the new forum with a link to any original source (that's not on ECF); or (b) their original source could simply be cut-and-pasted out. Obviously (a) or (b) would only be done w/ their express advance consent.

-- Everytime a thread gets posted up there in the new forum, a discussion link could be provided to a thread on the regular (open) FDA Regs forum, so that ECF denizens could discuss. I know that this might interfere with the comments posted to the authors' own blogs, so that might be tricky. On the other hand, some of them may welcome the chance to gain more visibility. (It's tricky, I know.)

Incidently I'd be happy to help w/ legwork in case that matters. It's not as if I'm sitting here on my skinny derrière trying to create work for people like you, Sonic

 

[peraspera]

When I try to subscribe to the Advocates - FDA sticky I get this message:
Message
Sorry! This forum is not accepting new posts.

 

[DreamWithin]

The sticky is just an announcement of what that forum is for. But I just checked and it appears I am unable to subscribe to the sub-forum, as well. Let me pass this up the chain and see if that's something we can fix

 

[Stosh]

The sticky is just an announcement of what that forum is for. But I just checked and it appears I am unable to subscribe to the sub-forum, as well. Let me pass this up the chain and see if that's something we can fix

Likely has to do with the Forum software...the section has restricted posting privileges. You can always just bookmark the sub forum...

 

[DreamWithin]

Yeah, that was my thought. I have passed on the question if it is feasible to have that feature working there or not. Bookmarking is a good workaround for the time being

 

[sonicdsl]

The other option is subscribing to the parent forum, which will notify you when anything under that is new.