Tuesday, 6 January 2026

February is Let's Write Letters Month

It is a shame a February letter writing project I loved, and have actively supported has become more or less unusable. The main issue is the use of automatic something-or-other, marking posts as spam and therefore not visible. Another project also has an automatic something-or-other so can't even make a new comment with updated information. It is a pity, as both projects are about human connection, with the chance to build friendships. Some of the friendships I have through these sites have lasted over 10 years. I do accept/understand that life/events can get in the way of things, such as for the alternative incowrimo site - I too had lost my enthusiasm for a while.... 

Two 1st class stamps used for postage - Jaime Lannister, and Horace Slughorn L
This I think went off to a penfriend found at a February letter writing project

Disqus marked a comment as spam. I wished people Happy New Year, and pondered whether I was going to participate in InCoWriMo
Does this look like spam to you?
So, I've come to the conclusion to do something myself. Whether it will work or not... A work in progress. Anyway. Let's Write Letters Month hopefully promotes what it says on the tin... to write letters... No target number of letters, no need to write every (postal) day... As I write this, inco hasn't put up a new public address exchange page. So, Let's Write Letters Month is on a forum. Although still relatively public, it is behind a login, and also behind a manual approval process. It is hosted on proboards https://febletters.boards.net/ 

If you are logged in to any other proboards hosted thing, you might get a security token error, when you try to register/log in.... an error proboards support forum suggests to clear cache, or even to log out of any proboards forums before trying again. I had the problem logging in on another device, so went through my proboards dashboard instead. 

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