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From: Roger Thomson <roger.thomson@oyster.co.uk>
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Subject: RE: Ultimate growth 
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 10:12:08 +0100
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>Getting a regular newsletter sent to your door would >help
> considerably.

People have suggested that this should be done through the web, others have
rightly countered that this would disenfranchise those without web access. 

How about an affiliation fee which reflects the cost of your affiliation? 

One of the main costs highlighted has been posting a newsletter to your
door. We could therefore have a £25 fee for those requesting a newsletter
and £20 (or less depending on the postal and administration costs) for those
accessing the newsletter via a website. People with limited bandwidth could
be emailed an Acrobat pdf file to peruse at their leisure, print off,
photocopy and distribute at will (good promotional tool I would have thought
- they can give copies to friends/relatives, especailly when there's a
photo/mention of them). 

Such a tiered structure would raise initial setup costs slightly as there
would be two types of member, but that would quickly be recouped through
saved printing, postage and stamp-licking costs and therefore merits serious
consideration. If anybody can argue sensibly against such an approach,
please do.

Best of all, IT SAVES TREES!  

Waddyafink?

rt


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Barry O'Kane 
> Sent: 10 June 1999 10:03
> To: britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: Ultimate growth 
> 
> 
> 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
> 
>