From: Kim Malo <kimmalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: celtics@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: The Celtics Report HOOPSWORLD.com NBA News and Information
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 00:30:52 -0400
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