I am guessing here - but the tool itself will be flexible enough so you can archive into an existing archive (like the ones currently in place for DS and Sentinel) or, if there is no archive, the tool can be used to pull stories into a new archive. of course the people running the archive will have to agree to fans using the tool to push/pull the stories to the right destination.

You, the writer, post your stories in xxx community LJ. You opt-in and use the posting format. At regular intervals , the script pings the LJ community and gathers those stories from those authors who have opted in and delivers them to the designated archive

Where the stories end up - well that is something that you will know BEFORE you opt-in. The real work, IMHO will be at the back end - with the people setting up and keeping the archives going. And those archives might be all over the place depending on the fandom. Personally, I think having multiple archives makes fandom more robust and resilient and this tool will work wonderfully in that arena. It also makes life simpler for the writers - you just post to the one LJ community and your story is uploaded for you to the acrhive.


arrow00 - let me know if I have any of this backwards.