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Dear Neil,
As the site has only been up for three days none of the
organisations have linked to us yet. They have all
pledged their support but have not added links as yet
because there was nothing to link to! We have had a few
emails asking us when the site will be ready so that
they can add links, and they have all offered to help us
in any way they can, but at the moment we feel it is
slightly unfair to ask them to link to us anyway, as we
can only offer links to nine clubs (yes, four more clubs
have responded since Saturday night!). What about you,
Neil? Would you like your club listed? We can only
make this work if people are willing to help us. We
have been planning the launch of this site for a few
weeks now - we still are - but we can't launch the site
with only nine links on it! Once we have more than 50 we
will launch the site proper, and only then will we ask
organisations to link to us.
Several other organisations, not listed, have offered
to link to the site but are not willing to 'endorse'
any sites not owned by themselves. Fair enough. We don't
make any false claims. We approached the organisations in
order to help get through shooters' paranoia (several
said that they would only go through official channels
to list their club, so we wanted to make Shooters' Web
an 'official channel') and asked them if they would be
willing to support us for that very reason. We made it
very clear that we are not a charity and will not be
asking for any financial contribution from clubs or
organisations towards the running of the site. However,
we wanted to be able to say that we had the support of
several organisations to encourage trust and a good
feeling between ourselves and shooters. Kudos, if you
like. We wanted to show that we too were willing to go
through the 'proper channels'.
As for web rings, have you ever seen one that actually
_works_? Or that is maintained? It's a good idea in
theory, but most people don't want a whacking great
webring logo on the bottom of a page. I might add a webring
to a personal page, but never to a 'professional' page.
Thanks for your support.
Kate
PS the email address [EMAIL PROTECTED] works now -
if anyone got an error message yesterday, do please try
again.
Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org
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