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Title: Updates- worlds and nas Post by: Ken Smith on November 09, 2010, 06:46:05 AM I received a comment that the web site taking precedence over phone would discourage participation.
Comment: if thats your excuse, sorry With iPhone and the like, the web can be read and updated from all us interstates real time. As a practical matter, we intend to make both web and phone message identical and current. Either can fail. Life throws curve balls. We think redundancy is good and the web is more reliable. Hence the precedence. Notices will have a check-for-update time if all works well. Title: Re: Updates- worlds and nas Post by: Paul Goodwin - US 46 on November 09, 2010, 10:45:54 AM I have never had access to the web while on the road. I'm not sure when that will change, certainly not in the near future.
Title: Re: Updates- worlds and nas Post by: dn4379 on November 09, 2010, 03:18:27 PM FYI ditto
Title: Re: Updates- worlds and nas Post by: Geoff Sobering on November 09, 2010, 10:57:46 PM Dealing with the Western Region's voice-mail system (aka "the hotline") has generally fallen to me, and I've volunteered to post all official notices for the GC and NAs this year (mostly to free up the time of the ice-checkers). I'm sure as the site selection finalizes (and esp. if it shifts at the last moment), Ken and the committee may be posting updates directly on the web, but I plan (and expect) to be updating the hotline immediately as new information becomes available.
Cheers, Geoff S. US-5156 Title: Re: Updates- worlds and nas Post by: Ken Smith on November 13, 2010, 09:37:49 PM I hear and will ensure that the hotline phone message is also up to date. Is an amendment to the NOR necessary? Post your opinion, please.
Thanks, Ken A post to me: "I think you might want to think of amending the notice of race to say something along the line of ... the hotline phone message and the web will be updated at the same time and will contain the same information. A prudent sailor will check all available sources of information including, but not limited to other sailors, hotline, web. "The whole problem of putting out the information on mulitple locations ie; the web/twitter/hotline, etc.. is which is the authoritative information, well.. it's the correct one, which ever one it is.. unfortunately.. if the web/yearbook/rt/sailing instructions make a typo err and say we can run on 36' (feet) long runners that doesn't make it correct... "A prudent sailor would check the hotline, call other sailors in route, call sailors sitting at home and ask them to check the web, call ken, call your regional commodore... "The hotline answering machine could fail, the website could fail. and even something completely unexpected could happen." |