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

[Snoopy the Celtics Beagle <snoopy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:30 AM 9/29/03 -0400, Kim Malo wrote:
>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.

Thanks to Kim for using intelligence guided by experience.  Makes it looks 
easy, she does.

Snoopy the Celtics Beagle
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