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From: amtsjh@amsta.leeds.ac.uk (S J Hill)
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Subject: we need opinions... (students elig.)
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> Excuse me but do you think you guys could take your discussion elsewhere?
> 
> By now you should know who each other are so why don't you just email each
> other instead of bombarding Britdisc.
> 
> It's a worthy discussion, it's just that not everyone needs to know about it.
> 
> Mark

If you've seen all this before with maillists please just 
delete this...
Also - I guess that about 3 or 4 people will reply to Mark's
message - and from there it can really snowball.  
I'm only replying becuase I wanted to make an "official
comment" as Director of Competitions.



Mark (and anyone else feeling a bit like that)

As someone who is involved in the sort of decision that is
currently being discussed (by nearly as many non-students as
students) I find it extremely useful to hear what people 
think and feel on these things.  

I don't suppose I am alone in this.

All the comments - with
the possible exception of one - had very clear subject headings.
This makes it very easy to delete the message.

Please don't frighten people away from saying what they think.
There hasn't been very much pointless jibbering, and nobody
has been insulted - a far cry from earlier debates.
(Personally I enjoyed the discussion about toilet rolls at
Ross-on-Wye; but that sort of thing never happens anymore.)

BD is our best means of gauging opinions.  (Altho' it remains
important to remember that not all ultimate players are
represented here.)
We don't have the time or money to conduct this sort of thing
on the phone.  And for people who are frequently involved in 
running tournaments for example there isn't much time left
for discussing things there either. 

In this case, it would appear that a bad rule has been put in place.
Without people saying so (on BD - cos there's nowhere else) we
might never really know.

Si

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