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Keys-minded people's thoughts on a particular day since 2002.

The Coconut Telegraph's Online Mission
The Coconut Telegraph is an historical diary with pictures and animation of what the Florida Keys were talking about on any given day since 2002.

We don't have reporters. We rely on you to send us content. With your content the world will be able to see what Keys-minded people were talking about on any particular day since January 2002. We don't report it, we just record it. We are keeping a public diary of what people were talking about.

Please don't send us articles to read because we won't print them--we want to know what you think on the subject.

Libel Policy and Your Email Address
We welcome all anonymous contributions except those of a specific negative nature. Submissions criticizing local people or businesses will have their email address automatically added to the end of your posting. This will prevent malicious false statements from being made and disturbing the peace.

We need help with your emails.
Please enter Coconut Telegraph in the subject line of your email or our spam filters will delete it and we can't publish it. Don't tell us what is in the email, just write the Department you want (Coconut Telegraph, Bulletin Board, Classified Ads). We open all emails that arrive. If you simply enter Coconut Telegraph in the subject line it will save us searching through hundreds of Spam emails every morning trying to find out which ones need to be read. If you must tell us the subject of the email, please write it after you write Coconut Telegraph in the subject line. It would really help us if you would do this little thing.

Censorship
All articles of a negative nature will have the poster's email address printed at the end of the post. National politics are exempt.

If you don't see your item printed it could be for a variety of reasons, mainly "Coconut Telegraph" is missing from the subject line of your email and we didn't get it. Or an incomprehensible message, pornographic material, repetitive messages, etc. There is no intention to offend our contributors.

If you write multiple posts on the same subject we will consolidate the posts or just publish the more pertinent one.

Editing
We reserve the right to edit any post for content.

Our Half-baked Editing Policy
In order to try to preserve the English language this site seldom uses abbreviations and non-words such as: yr, pls, msg, LOL, ain’t, yep, y’all, WTF, alot, lots, till, gonna, love ya (it’s never I love you. People are reluctant to personalize their writing by using I). We also have to change “&” to “and”. Some posters number everything: 1), 2), etc. First, Second, etc. About a quarter of all posts start with: WOW, Now, I personally, So, Hey, Anyway, Just and Hmmm are all favorites. About a quarter of the post say: by the way. And most posts about finances include: We the people, we taxpayers, hard earned. And the biggest change of all is we remove ALL CAPITAL LETTERS and multiple exclamation marks!!!!!!!!!!!

Emailing Articles
Send us your opinion of stuff you read. Don't send us the article. We don't have the time to read all the articles and digest their content. You should do that. You be the reporter.

Signing Your Post
The Coconut Telegraph is not a chat room so your name will not be included at the end of your post unless it is pertinent to the post of badmouthing someone.

Classified Ads
Add or Remove Classified Ad
Classified ads are free for private parties ($10 with picture or link) for three months.
Commercial ads (includes a picture and link if desired) are $20 for 3 months.

Deadline for Publishing
BigPineKey.com is published every day by noon. Mail is download at 6AM on the day of publication. It you want something published on a certain day please make sure we receive it before 6AM on the day you want it published. Emails received after 6AM will appear in the following day's publication.

Disclaimer
We publish a daily history of what people are thinking and talking about in the Keys. All content is provided by Keys-minded people from all over the world. They do this in order to help write this history. BigPineKey.com, Safari Inc and the Editor are not responsible for the Coconut Telegraph's content. We have no reporters or writers.

Guest Columnist
We welcome new feature writers. If you have an idea for a regular column please let us know. We are always looking for new ideas. We welcome aspiring writers and you don't even have to be very good. Our standards are low as long as you're not mean or dirty minded. If you'd like to have attribution or a link to your site you can rent a space on the Coconut Telegraph for $19.95 a week.

Jokes
We're not crazy about Jokes. If we do print them they will only be printed on Fridays. There are many excellent joke sites to visit.

Removing a Post with Your Email Address Attached
If you think your email address was unfairly attached and you'd like it removed; you must tell us exactly where the post is located. (Example: Wednesday January 7, 2006, the tenth line from the bottom. Beginning with [Shitty Service] I received...)

Miscellaneous
If you have any information about the Keys you'd like to add to our History, Statistics, Business Directory, etc. Please send it in and we'll added it to the appropriate page.

Photo and Video Attachments
We welcome anything you can send us like photos, art, cartoons, GIF animation, videos or links to other interesting places. Please send them as an email attachment because they sometimes won't print if they're in the body of your email.

Coconut Telegraph Banner
If you'd like to submit a banner for the top of the Coconut Telegraph page please create it at 574 pixels wide by 200 pixels high. .jpeg, .bmp, .psd, .gif, PNG, TIFF are accepted graphic formats.

Links
Please limit you links to only per post.

Support us for free
If you enjoy this living record of the Keys' thought it would be kind of you to tell every business that they should advertise with us or that you saw their advertisement on BigPineKey.com. That really helps us to stay in business. Advertising is our only source of revenue. We don't have anything else to offer.