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Re Norman Bassett's posting on this subject:
We apologise for the length of time it is taking us to get our website
transferred to a new 'host'. The problem is in getting our previous host,
Easyspace, to release the domain to the successor. 'Easyspace' are not
responding quickly to our messages and the whole thing has gone on for far
too long.
Two weeks ago we received a message from Easyspace to 'pay up within two days
- one of them being a Sunday - or we close you down'. That was the first
inkling we had had that there was any delay in our payments. Our website had
been set up by a third party who was actually financing the site for us as
part of his contributions to our campaign. He is no longer in a position to
do this, hence the sudden problem. This person was frequently out of contact
with us and the whole situation was, in hindsight, unsatisfactory. However,
this is the only significant 'hiccup' we have had with the running of the
site so far. It is a pity that it happened at this time though.
So Norman Bassett isn't very impressed with our site! What does this mean? If
he could give us some positive suggestions for improvement we would be very
pleased to consider them.
Yes, we agree that a website is very important to our campaign and we are
developing ours as we can. It must be borne in mind, of course, that
maintenance of any information exchange system requires appropriate input of
resources - ours are limited at this time and we see no point in trying to
duplicate the output of, for example, Cybershooters. We do have links to many
other sites but if there are still others to which it would be sensible to
have links, again, please let us know and we will do what we can.
Our Bulletin Board is still functioning and is 'host', amongst other topics,
to a rather unpleasant exchange of views with regard to the administration of
another organisation at present. Whilst we strongly support freedom of speech
we feel that a serious topic of discussion is being undermined by a
succession of unhelpful postings from a variety of sources containing
personal remarks of a scurrilous nature. We ask all persons using our
Bulletin Board to observe the niceties of civilised behaviour. Potentially
libellous remarks are being deleted as soon as we observe them but otherwise
the Board is not moderated in any way.
The Bulletin Board address is: http://venus.beseen.com/boardroom/d/26347/
I will post to Cybershooters as soon as our Website is back on again. In the
meantime, please accept our apologies for our apparent incompetence in IT
matters.
It is, of course, possible that we are incompetent in other areas as well, as
was also suggested by Norman Bassett. That remains to be seen - how do we
judge competence in a campaign against an implacable foe? By results or by
effort? No-one is doing much good if we judge by results, are they? At least
we are doing our best to campaign for what we believe to be right and will
continue to do so for as long as is necessary. If Mr.Bassett can help us we
would be very pleased to receive his help.
Richard Malbon, Director, Sportsman's Association.
Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org
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