Re: Question

[Mike Dynon <mdynon@ix.netcom.com>]

You don't have to buy my statement--it's just my opinion.  But there are
two issues here.  Concerning customer service, I'd also like to be able
to e-mail the Celtics and tell them that, although I live just 70 miles
from the Fleet Center, I can't get Ch. 68 on either cable or antenna. 
So I agree with you there.  But on the other hand, a Celtics e-mail
address might be flooded with messages such as "Trade Pervis for Duncan"
and "Boston sucks, signed, a 12-year-old Lakers fan." It could become a
cyberspace version of talk radio, and since Pitino calls talk radio "the
fellowship of the miserable," I don't see the franchise rushing to offer
e-mail access.

I looked at NBA.com.  You can send e-mail to the league office by
visiting  http://www.nba.com/Contact/index.html  There is a form that
you can complete to submit questions, comments, etc. (but only using the
format they want to receive).  Perhaps it would be worthwhile to notify
the league about the Ch. 68 problem.

For the record, and as a comparison, I checked some team home pages that
are within NBA.com.  The Bulls, Spurs and Sonics all had the same type
of e-mail form.  The Knicks, Lakers and Heat did not offer it.

Mike

Dorine wrote:
> 
> I've heard that before, but I'm not buying it.  Most organizations have
> email and welcome input.  If they cared how the fans felt they'd have a
> place you could email and someone to read it and give them a synopsys.  It
> would also be faster for them to read it online than to open and sort
> through all that snail mail.  Any sports franchise needs the fans to exist.
> When you get the feeling they don't care what the fan thinks, it hurts the
> image they project.  If other sports franchises have email, why not the
> Celtics?
> Dorine
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Dynon <mdynon@ix.netcom.com>
> To: Dorine <norine@sover.net>
> Cc: Bos3332@aol.com <Bos3332@aol.com>; celtics@igtc.com <celtics@igtc.com>
> Date: Friday, August 28, 1998 10:56 PM
> Subject: Re: Question
> 
> >Dorine wrote:
> >>
> >> As far as I can find out they don't have email.  I had to use snail mail,
> >> and I called them, besides.  That Celtics office is a little behind the
> >> times.
> >
> >The Celtics probably have an internal e-mail system, but they'd be
> >insane to have a mailbox accessible to all the pseudo coaches/GMs out
> >there (many of them on this list).  They get plenty of advice from the
> >talk show callers, and probably more via snail mail.
> >
> >Mike Dynon