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From: "Wayne Retter" <wretter@postmaster.co.uk>
Subject: Re: RE: Annoying commercial messages!
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"Ranulf Doswell" <ralf@digitalasylum.co.uk> wrote:
>You know, I still don't see what people's problems are
>with BritDisc.

Ralf,

BritDisc does work well. Ultimate in the UK would probably be somewhat smaller and less informed without it (anyone received a tournament invite in the post recently?).

I think that the main problem seems to be that it's just a bit "old"... and therefore just doesn't seem as "pretty" or "gadgety" as some of the newer systems available.

As a manager of several eGroups lists, I see flaws in most of your arguments against their system. (There's a large amount of configuration options). However, you may indeed be correct that what such providers offer may not be what we're really looking for.

As for the "Annoying commercial messages"... some have come from legitimately subscribed Ultimate players that are involved in share dealing or marketing pyramids (as a money spinning hobby, I guess). If we'd prefer that they didn't do this, I guess that we should ask them nicely to refrain. In the meantime, the occaisional use of the "delete" key seems to work quite well.

Wayne Retter

PS: I get messages to email accounts no longer on BD, where it looks as though someone has joined the list, acquired the membership listing from the majordomo system and then set up in their own list from it to Spam. That's more annoying to me.

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