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If one cannot have DSL, by all means have satellite installed.  It costs me 
about $60/month, but I could NEVER go back to dial-up.  I've been quite 
happy with Wild Blue, and I'm sure there must be other companies.

Barbara

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ranelle Rubin" <raneller@xxxxxxx>
To: <greymare56@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <alissa.norman@xxxxxxxxx>; 
<ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <jtmb@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 8:58 AM
Subject: Re: [RC] [RC] Spiffy new look to the website!


> Karen,
>
> I too liked the old format in terms of photos. In the new format, alot of 
> the photos are small, which was never the case before. I am lucky to have 
> High Speed internet finally, but I can remember the days of dial up..not 
> fun..when it comes to your area, you will love it. Have you considered 
> satellite? I know it is pricey, but I have several friends who like it 
> alot.
>
> Ranelle Rubin
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>
>
> > From: "Karen Sullivan" <greymare56@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: "Alissa Norman" <alissa.norman@xxxxxxxxx>,<ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > CC: "teri" <jtmb@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: Re: [RC]   Spiffy new look to the website!
> > Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:06:51 -0800
> >
> > Just some thoughts....
> >
> > Not meaning to be a bah-humbug person......but perhaps taken with 
> > constructive criticism....
> >
> > Some thoughts from a website addict and shop-aholic.....
> > 1. I'm still having problems establishing my account for an ad placed...so 
> > I can pay; I am sure this is a glitch that will get fixed.
> >
> > 2. The new set up of the classifieds will certainly curtail my daily 
> > perusing.....I guess being in the dark ages with plain old dial up. it's 
> > painfully slow to view ads. Before, I could just scroll down and 
> > speed-read and scan ads...reading all the ads probably in less than a few 
> > minutes...and could get all the pertinent information in an instant.
> >
> > With the new format...given the titles are whatever; you can't tell if a a 
> > horse is old, young, how tall, etc. All that shows up on the main menu is 
> > price and location...so I would have to click on each title;and wait for 
> > it to load...to even see if it's a horse I want to read about....then wait 
> > to go back to main menu....maybe having a few more categories would help, 
> > just giving age of horse, gender and perhaps height.......? (this being 
> > constructive criticism)
> >
> > On the tack ads....only one thing may be listed in the title, while more 
> > things might be in the ad....so unless I click on each ad individually, I 
> > can't see everything that is there....again, with dial up,this could take 
> > hours!!!!
> >
> > Just my opinions....I liked the format of the old ads with just a link for 
> > photos.....so that if the ad was nothing I was interested in, I could just 
> > avoid the photo download time.
> >
> > Oh well, I don't need to be looking at horses or tack anyway!
> > Karen
> >
> >   ----- Original Message -----
> >   From: Alissa Norman
> >   To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >   Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 6:19 AM
> >   Subject: [RC] Spiffy new look to the website!
> >
> >
> >   Wow, John and Steph!  You go home for a night, come back the next day, 
> > and BAM!  Whole new website look!
> >
> >   If you get ridecamp via email, go to endurance.net sometime and check 
> > out the new look.
> >
> >   The only thing I don't like, John, since I read the archives, is that 
> > the colors of posts "read" and "unread" are very similar (purple vs. 
> > blue) so it's a lot harder to distinguish what I have already read.
> >
> >   Thanks for all your hard work in keeping the endurance community 
> > informed!
> >
> >   Alissa
>
>
>
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