Updates- worlds and nas

[Ken Smith]

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.

[Paul Goodwin - US 46]

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.

[dn4379]

FYI       ditto

[Geoff Sobering]

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

[Ken Smith]

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."