--- In [email protected], Steve Wood <st...@...> wrote: > > Andrew J Instone-Cowie wrote: > > Steve Wood wrote: > >> To quote from the leaflet I was given when I asked for a hard copy of > >> the winter stoppage list in the BW tent at the National last weekend: > >> > >> "After consultation with national boating organisations we have decided > >> - now that access to the internet is so widespread - to maintain > >> stoppage details exclusively on waterscape.com. This means that the risk > >> of boaters making cruising plans on the basis of out of date information > >> is greatly reduced" > > > > "...and saves us lots of money." > > Would saving money be a problem if the system worked? Trouble is, it's a > poorly designed and maintained system :-(
> One golden rule that should be adopted forthwith by the internet stoppage closure advices on waterescape, is that on every update they should re-advise the estimated date of the reopening of the waterway. Just me - or should it not be obvious to them, that is the most important factor to the "customer" ! Regards Pete www.thecanalshop.com
