From britdisc-owner@csv.warwick.ac.uk Thu May 21 17:45:38 1998 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.8.8) id RAA05176 for britdisc-outgoing; Thu, 21 May 1998 17:29:26 +0100 (BST) Received: from artemis.le.ac.uk (artemis.le.ac.uk [143.210.16.126]) by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA05169 for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Thu, 21 May 1998 17:29:24 +0100 (BST) Received: from harrier.le.ac.uk ([143.210.8.56]) by artemis.le.ac.uk with smtp (Exim 1.90 #1) for britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk id 0ycYFs-0005UW-00; Thu, 21 May 1998 17:31:44 +0100 Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 17:28:14 +0100 (BST) From: "B. Ravilious" <br5@leicester.ac.uk> X-Sender: br5@harrier Reply-To: "B. Ravilious" <br5@leicester.ac.uk> To: Britdisc <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk> Subject: A Response to Time Out... Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.96.980521170021.13078D-100000@harrier> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-britdisc@warwick.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Hi All. Here's my attempt at a reply to the Time Out article for you PR types to rip apart. I haven't posted it and I await peoples comments before I do anything with it. Ben ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Editor, They say any publicity is good publicity but judging by Peter Paphides output "Stop This Frisbee Madness" the same cannot be said for journalism. According to Peter, I and several thousand other British men and women are little short of idiots in designer clothes bent on wasting other peoples park space. I spend a lot of time playing and promoting Ultimate Frisbee which is an extremely demanding athletic field sport with elements similar to soccer and basketball. In fact, it so impressed your colleagues that it was included in a Time Out A-Z of sport a few months back. This kind of reactionary nonsense 'journalism' is devastating stuff for people trying to introduce a bit of variety into the quagmire of money-driven ball sports which we are forced to endure these days. Have a laugh at people enjoying alternative sports if you must, but please do not indulge in character assassination and please bother to research the article. More (accurate) information on Ultimate can be found on the Internet at http://www.ultimateweb.co.uk/buf/. Yours faithfully Ben Ravilious Secretary Leicester Ultimate Club ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- <Letter Head: Leicester Ultimate Club, Supported by Leicester City Council, etc> Perhaps It should offer more in the way of further information, contacts, etc. What do you think?