Evaluating and rating boards, need help

19th February 2010, 02:12 AM

Can you spare a quarter of an hour a day the next few weeks? We are developing a web-tool that will help users sharing experience in a new way. The tool is almost finished and we need people to test it. No computer experience required. All you need is access to the internet and at least a couple of weeks windsurfing experience.
Please send me mail to ilan at getmail no if you can help.

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agrelon · 19th February 2010, 09:07 AM

To ilan at getmail no ?

19th February 2010, 11:59 AM

Right, but can you please remove it from your message? Spam-robots are continuously scanning the internet for e-mail addresses. I wrote my address cryptic to avoid some of these robots.

In case it is not clear from the above, this is a windsurfing-related tool that (hopefully) all windsurfers might find useful one time or another.

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ilan_s · 26th February 2010, 03:00 AM

Anyone using an old PC? Windows 98? IE6? Any other odd combination? We need to test aspects that work on the newest browsers, but may be a nuisance on older systems.

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26th February 2010, 08:14 AM

why do you need e-mail addresses ?
are you selling them ?
why not just post the website with the "webtool" ?

agrelon · 26th February 2010, 04:25 PM

I tried sending an email, bounced 3 times. This doesn't seem very legit to me...

ilan_s · 26th February 2010, 08:15 PM

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why do you need e-mail addresses ?

I don’t.

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are you selling them ?

No. Would I waste my time at a windsurfing forum if my goal was harvesting addresses? Would you?

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why not just post the website with the "webtool" ?

As mentioned above, we need help testing the tool. At this phase it is essential to have control over user-input and to get user-feedback. Once the URL is out, I will have neither.
Why don’t I post what this tool does? I did, look at the subject of this thread.
Why don’t I reveal more? Because I want to asses experience of first-time-users.

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I tried sending an email, bounced 3 times. This doesn't seem very legit to me...

Sorry you experience that agrelon. You can confirm my address with the administrator of this site.
Did you replace the at with a @ and the last space with a dot? Removed ALL spaces within and outside the string? Noticed that it is getmail, not gmail?
Can you send me pm with the error message if you still get it bounced?

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ilan_s · 12th March 2010, 02:26 PM

We are about half a million active windsurfers worldwide.
Say half of us can read. That leaves about a quarter of a million.
Say half of these can read and write English. That leaves a bit more then hundred thousand.
Say half of those have access to the internet, and of those tenth attend internet-forums about windsurfing. Not many left, but still a lot more then the five that actually replied my request.
Will it help if I get on my knees and beg?

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19th February 2010, 02:12 AM	#1
Unregistered Guest Posts: n/a	Evaluating and rating boards, need help Can you spare a quarter of an hour a day the next few weeks? We are developing a web-tool that will help users sharing experience in a new way. The tool is almost finished and we need people to test it. No computer experience required. All you need is access to the internet and at least a couple of weeks windsurfing experience. Please send me mail to ilan at getmail no if you can help. .

19th February 2010, 09:07 AM	#2
agrelon Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 421	To ilan at getmail no ? __________________ JP Super-X 106l, North F8 Ram: 5.8m, 175cm, 54kg Last edited by Tony; 22nd February 2010 at 08:34 AM. Reason: Hide email with cryptic words.

26th February 2010, 04:25 PM	#6
agrelon Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 421	I tried sending an email, bounced 3 times. This doesn't seem very legit to me... __________________ JP Super-X 106l, North F8 Ram: 5.8m, 175cm, 54kg

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19th February 2010, 11:59 AM	#3
Unregistered Guest Posts: n/a	Right, but can you please remove it from your message? Spam-robots are continuously scanning the internet for e-mail addresses. I wrote my address cryptic to avoid some of these robots. In case it is not clear from the above, this is a windsurfing-related tool that (hopefully) all windsurfers might find useful one time or another. .

26th February 2010, 03:00 AM	#4
ilan_s Member Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 22	Anyone using an old PC? Windows 98? IE6? Any other odd combination? We need to test aspects that work on the newest browsers, but may be a nuisance on older systems. .

26th February 2010, 08:14 AM	#5
Unregistered Guest Posts: n/a	why do you need e-mail addresses ? are you selling them ? why not just post the website with the "webtool" ?

12th March 2010, 02:26 PM	#8
ilan_s Member Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 22	We are about half a million active windsurfers worldwide. Say half of us can read. That leaves about a quarter of a million. Say half of these can read and write English. That leaves a bit more then hundred thousand. Say half of those have access to the internet, and of those tenth attend internet-forums about windsurfing. Not many left, but still a lot more then the five that actually replied my request. Will it help if I get on my knees and beg? .