Welcome to the latest iteration of my site dedicated to River Oaks Trace. As I did in my previous site, I intend to give relevant information that you may find useful and even impactful. More than that, I want you, the members of River Oaks Trace, to participate in this venue by sharing things important to you and which you think may be of interest to others. Those things may include opinions, observations, compliments, complaints, photos, birthday wishes, holiday recipes, etc.
As webmaster, author, and monitor I must make a few rules. If you submit items to be posted here, please focus on family and community. Let’s stay away from politics and controversial matters outside our immediate neighborhood; there are plenty of other sites for that. If you have something to share, send it to me by text, email, regular mail, or other form of communication and I will transcribe it into a post for you. It’s even better if you can send photos as well; visuals make an article more interesting. If you need help with photos, I have 60 years experience in photography along with skills in Photoshop and graphic design.
Occasionally, there may be posts that contain sensitive information not suitable for outsiders to see. In such cases I will protect those posts with a passcode and I will give the passcode out only to ROT members. Passcodes will expire within 12 to 24 hours, after which a new passcode will be required. I will distribute passcodes with a text alert.
Attribution: Also on the subject of security, I need to know your identity for any articles that you submit for publication. I will normally know this through your method of submission–email, text, phone, etc. There are, however, hackers who like to create mischief by spoofing legitimate contributors; therefore, I will need your full name (first and last) along with your submissions.
Referring to the previous paragraph, for security reasons I will not include your full name in posts that I publish for you. At most, I will include only your first name and the initial of your last name; however, I suggest you provide me an alias under which to publish your articles. Examples of aliases would be “Happy Frog” and “Over the Hill”. You can make up your own, of course. You can be anonymous…mm
