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| Sam Sloan 2006-09-28, 7:43 pm |
| Every day today we are losing tens of thousands of visitors to our
website at http://www.uschess.org because there is no way to find on
our website the news reports about the World Chess Championship Match
that is now taking place. You would not even know from looking at our
website that there is such a match.
I realize that this is not Jennifer's fault, but Jennifer is the only
name we know. We do not know who the nameless webmaster of our website
is, except that we have heard that he is somewhere in Canada. As a
result, Jennifer is going to take the blame for this debacle, so I
hope that she gets on the case and finds out who the real webmaster is
and both complains to him and lets us know who he is.
Do you mean to say that we paid, or are paying, $50,000 for this? We
would have been better off continuing to muddle along in our hapless
way, rather than call in these so-called experts to tell us how to run
our website and our magazine. These experts have done nothing but
cause us grief and cost us money, while losing our readership.
The website is junk. The changes in the magazine, such as deleting all
information about the USCF, including how to join and what the
membership dues are or even the mailing address of the organization,
is a disaster.
Do not believe me?? Go through Chess Life and see if you can find any
place where it says exactly what the mailing address of the USCF is,
or where to send your money or how much to pay if you want to join the
USCF.
I vote to stop all payments to the webmaster and to Paul Hoffman. I
understand that we have not paid him the full $50,000 yet. The man is
worthless. Demand our money back and tell him in no uncertain terms:
NO MORE MONEY.
Do I make myself clear, or should I tell you what I really think about
the current situation?
Sam Sloan
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| parrthenon@cs.com 2006-09-28, 7:43 pm |
| CHESS LIFE WOES
Subj: Fire the Mailer
Date: 9/28/2006 2:42:16 PM Pacific Standard Time
From: mburkett@montana.com
I don't do "Mail to all" but feel free to forward my response to
whomever
you choose.
quote:
>Do not believe me?? Go through Chess Life and see if you can find any place
>where it says exactly what the mailing address of the USCF is, or where to
>send your money or how much to pay if you want to join the USCF.
They finally got it into the latest issue, but it is well hidden in the
contents.
Chess Life could go to any newsstand, open a random magazine, and
immediately
learn how to do it right. I didn't receive the previous issue at all,
so have
no idea what was in it. I confirm that the one before that had no
contact information.
quote:
>I vote to stop all payments to the webmaster and to Paul Hoffman. I
>understand that we have not paid him the full $50,000 yet. The man is
>worthless. Demand our money back and tell him in no uncertain terms: NO
>MORE MONEY.
quote:
>Do I make myself clear, or should I tell you what I really think about the
>current situation?
Well, I'm not going to re-up unless some changes for the better happen.
You already know how I feel about dropping Larry Evans' column. Has
Rohde's column also been dropped? It was the Yang to Evans' Yin, giving
up-to-date opening theory. Byrne did the same, though not quite as well
as Rohde. I guess that made him expendable.
Amici sumus,
Max
email:
mburkett@montana.com
maxburkett@yahoo.com
beaumax@hotmail.com
snailmail:
Max Burkett
633-B Minnesota Av
East Missoula, MT
59802 (USA)
telephone:
406-728-6198 (USA)
Sam Sloan wrote:
quote:
> Every day today we are losing tens of thousands of visitors to our
> website at http://www.uschess.org because there is no way to find on
> our website the news reports about the World Chess Championship Match
> that is now taking place. You would not even know from looking at our
> website that there is such a match.
>
> I realize that this is not Jennifer's fault, but Jennifer is the only
> name we know. We do not know who the nameless webmaster of our website
> is, except that we have heard that he is somewhere in Canada. As a
> result, Jennifer is going to take the blame for this debacle, so I
> hope that she gets on the case and finds out who the real webmaster is
> and both complains to him and lets us know who he is.
>
> Do you mean to say that we paid, or are paying, $50,000 for this? We
> would have been better off continuing to muddle along in our hapless
> way, rather than call in these so-called experts to tell us how to run
> our website and our magazine. These experts have done nothing but
> cause us grief and cost us money, while losing our readership.
>
> The website is junk. The changes in the magazine, such as deleting all
> information about the USCF, including how to join and what the
> membership dues are or even the mailing address of the organization,
> is a disaster.
>
> Do not believe me?? Go through Chess Life and see if you can find any
> place where it says exactly what the mailing address of the USCF is,
> or where to send your money or how much to pay if you want to join the
> USCF.
>
> I vote to stop all payments to the webmaster and to Paul Hoffman. I
> understand that we have not paid him the full $50,000 yet. The man is
> worthless. Demand our money back and tell him in no uncertain terms:
> NO MORE MONEY.
>
> Do I make myself clear, or should I tell you what I really think about
> the current situation?
>
> Sam Sloan
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| Patrick 2006-09-29, 3:11 am |
| We are Americans with American ideals and patriotism, we don't give damn to
Commies!
"Sam Sloan" <sloan@ishipress.com> wrote in message
news:451bec6e.133938796@ca.news.verio.net...
quote:
> Every day today we are losing tens of thousands of visitors to our
> website at http://www.uschess.org because there is no way to find on
> our website the news reports about the World Chess Championship Match
> that is now taking place. You would not even know from looking at our
> website that there is such a match.
>
> I realize that this is not Jennifer's fault, but Jennifer is the only
> name we know. We do not know who the nameless webmaster of our website
> is, except that we have heard that he is somewhere in Canada. As a
> result, Jennifer is going to take the blame for this debacle, so I
> hope that she gets on the case and finds out who the real webmaster is
> and both complains to him and lets us know who he is.
>
> Do you mean to say that we paid, or are paying, $50,000 for this? We
> would have been better off continuing to muddle along in our hapless
> way, rather than call in these so-called experts to tell us how to run
> our website and our magazine. These experts have done nothing but
> cause us grief and cost us money, while losing our readership.
>
> The website is junk. The changes in the magazine, such as deleting all
> information about the USCF, including how to join and what the
> membership dues are or even the mailing address of the organization,
> is a disaster.
>
> Do not believe me?? Go through Chess Life and see if you can find any
> place where it says exactly what the mailing address of the USCF is,
> or where to send your money or how much to pay if you want to join the
> USCF.
>
> I vote to stop all payments to the webmaster and to Paul Hoffman. I
> understand that we have not paid him the full $50,000 yet. The man is
> worthless. Demand our money back and tell him in no uncertain terms:
> NO MORE MONEY.
>
> Do I make myself clear, or should I tell you what I really think about
> the current situation?
>
> Sam Sloan
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