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Article #36Re: BackpackGearTest.org - Call for Gear Testers
From: David Morrison
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 22:48
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 22:48
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In article <452186c3$1@dnews.tpgi.com.au>, "Roger Caffin" <r.caffin@tpg.com.au> wrote: > > Be aware that you will be getting between 3 and 12 e-mails a day, 99% of > > which are directed to some other individual tester. > NOT TRUE ! ! ! > You can get every single posting sent to you as a separate email if you > wish. Virtually no-one does though. > You can also get them sent as a single 'digest' of up to 25 emails > concatenated together. This is controlled by the user profile YOU create at > Yahoogroups. I do this, and get maybe one or sometimes two emails a day per > Yahoo group. I appreciate that you can get them as a digest, but you still have to look at them to see if any are directed at you. I find it easier to get individual messages so I can go immediately to any that are for me rather than having to hunt through a digest. > But there is always > someone looking after your owner review, and that person can help. And we > have a full-blown Mentor program which will assign a single person to you to > coach you through the first few reviews. I know this Mentor process works - > but you have to ask for it. Dead simple though. Yes, but both of my attempts at e-mail contacts got no response. It was only when I contacted Roger privately (as I knew he was involved) that I got any answers. > > By all means sign up if you think the prospect of free gear is worth it. > 'Free Gear' is not the primary aim. Sorry - that doesn't work. From Andrew Priest's posting: > This is a blatant plug for BackpackGearTest. We want more Testers to > test FREE gear. Why? Read on. Sounds like free gear is what you are using to get people involved.... Cheers David
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