Re: The Celtics Report HOOPSWORLD.com NBA News and Information

[Kim Malo <kimmalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ya know, it's kind of like reading different people's evaluation of the 
same player, it's got more to do with perspective than what's being looked at:

At 11:20 PM 9/28/2003 -0400, Shawn Niles wrote:
> I supported Greg privately. I'll do it now publicly. The extra e-mail 
> thing for predictions is foolish. I know that Snoopy is happy with his 
> little site but quite frankly there's not a whole lot of need for it. I 
> figure it is something he does to try and pass the time in his retirement. 
> Thats fine and more power to him. But it does get annoying when we are 
> directed to visit it in every one of his e-mails. And then he creates a 
> separate e-mail for predictions to try and 'force' us in a way to use the 
> website. No thanks. If I make a prediction i'll do it as I have done in 
> the past... right here. And then i'll probably forget all about it as I 
> usually do, and I imagine most do , who lead regular lives.

Clarification - sending things to the separate email does not in any way 
force you to visit his site. Willingly, kicking and screaming, or 
redirected secretly from another site. You put the adress he gave you in 
the to field, you email your vote. End of story.

I took Snoopy's using a separate email to be the sort of thing I do myself- 
set up a separate address as a filter to minimize errors. That way he knows 
anything that goes to that address is a prediction, and if all the 
predictions go there he's less likely to miss a vote because  someone 
buries it in a post discussing something else.  Which you know as well as I 
do happens. He owns the domain, so it's easier for him to set up the extra 
mailbox on that domain than create a brand new account from scratch with 
hotmail or someone like that. I've a numer of different emails with 
mindspring for similar, administrative only purposes.

Simple as that. And all without patronizing to death with talk of your 
"little" complaint that you just make to try to pass the time.

*sheesh* Can we get the Cs to scrimmage for us, just to provide some meat 
for the list that doesn't seem like cannibalism?

Kim