From britdisc-owner@csv.warwick.ac.uk Thu Jun 10 10:02:08 1999 Received: by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA18983 for britdisc-outgoing; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 10:00:32 +0100 (BST) Received: from daffodil.csv.warwick.ac.uk (daffodil [137.205.192.30]) by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA18978 for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 10:00:31 +0100 (BST) Received: from nuclear.bomb.co.uk (nuclear.bomb.co.uk [198.80.124.122]) by daffodil.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA01029 for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 10:00:28 +0100 (BST) Received: from pow (pow.bomb.co.uk [198.80.124.132]) by nuclear.bomb.co.uk (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id IAA10230 for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 08:57:53 GMT Message-Id: <199906100857.IAA10230@nuclear.bomb.co.uk> X-Sender: barry@mail.endzone.co.uk X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 10:03:25 +0100 To: britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk From: "Barry O'Kane" <barry@endzone.co.uk> Subject: Re: Ultimate growth Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-britdisc@warwick.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Just adding my support to the BUF proposals - I don't want to repeat everything as I am pretty much in agreement with what Ben and Paul have said. But >I'm sure lots of players gradually dropped out of Ultimate partly because they were no longer >in touch with what was happening (I did). This is a real problem for new graduates who move >to a part of the country with no teams. Getting a regular newsletter sent to your door would >help considerably. I see this as the most major benefit for both players and the BUF. Many players that aren't on britdisc/have web access find it hard to keep up with dates/results/new rules etc... and for new players I frimly believe that a monthly newsletter would go a long way to keeping them interested. I think this applies as much if not more to student players - my experience of student reqruitment is huge numbers of new people that last for about 2 months and then suddenly there are very few - anything that helps keep those people interested is great! I agree however that students (and un-waged) will need some form of reduced membership. Just my two cents, BARRY