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Re: BackpackGearTest.org - Call for Gear Testers

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From: David Morrison
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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From: David Morrison <davidmor@excite.com>
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Subject: Re: BackpackGearTest.org - Call for Gear Testers
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