Highlights of the Latest in Slugging News…

Pentagon Changes

Due to construction, the North Parking Kiss and Ride lot has been closed and re-located to the South Parking lot effective 16 Apr 03. It does not appear as though this will impact slugging. Please post comments on the message board regarding any impacts. Here is some additional information.

• PBM-03-12

• Map of South Parking Changes

• Map of North Parking Changes

Message Board Graffiti

Thanks to all who have alerted the webmaster regarding message board graffiti (solicitations, obscene comments, etc).  Alerts from fellow slugs about inappropriate postings have come within minutes of the postings and have effectively put a stop to this. Thanks to all in keeping this a professional message board.

New Slug Lines Being Formed

A number of slugs and drivers are trying to develop new slug lines. 

• Springfield Mall or Kingstowne Lines There has been interest in starting a line east of the Bob's (aka Long John Silver) for quite some time. I really think these will work but we need somebody to take charge of getting these started!  See Springfield Mall messages or Kingstowne Alexandria messages

Some Stats:

• Website has 937 active members.

• 1302 subscribers to the newsletter.

• Message Board has over 561 active topics with  2361 posts and 106,330 readings!

• 70 Lost and 40 Found items posted on the Lost and Found Section  See the list below of items posted in April 2003.

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Features added to the Website!

A number of upgrades and new features have been added to the website to handle the increasing number of visitors and to improve security! Here's just some of the upgrades:

• New "Slug Groups" - Slug-Lines.com now has automated mailing lists similar to Yahoo Groups! These automated lists are known as "Groups" or "list-server mailing lists" and allow you to subscribe (and unsubscribe) to a specific topic. Many slugs are using this system to coordinate ride homes. See Slug Groups.

• New Star Rating System - A new star rating system has been introduced to help evaluate slug lines!!  Hopefully this will help others determine which lines to use. Visit you favorite slug line web page and cast your vote! You can even leave comments to tell others the good (or bad) things about the line. See Slug Rating System.

To all the Slugs, Drivers and Sponsor, thanks for all the support!