[ntnm] Re: newspapers by email if it wasn't broke why fix it

  • From: Rod <rod.carne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "ntnm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <ntnm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 17:13:39 +0100

Yes, I guess that's the problem!  We didn't realise that we were getting 
something for nothing.  If we had to pay the retail price for each magazine 
then we would start screaming!  Rod 

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> On 27 May 2014, at 14:53, "Derek Hornby" <derek.hornby_uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
> wrote:
> 
> But just maybe,  if we want a good service  we need to pay for it.
> Funding the service is the crux  of problem.
> 
> Derek 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ntnm-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ntnm-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of goshawk on horseback
> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2014 1:05 PM
> To: ntnm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [ntnm] Re: newspapers by email if it wasn't broke why fix it
> 
> at the time, especially given that everyone is trying to put extra demands 
> on the amount we get, probably not many, and I have to say that I would have
> 
> been one of those raising a stink about yet another increasing expense.
> but if I had had any idea of the diabolical system we would get lumbered 
> with at the time, then whilst I wouldn't have exactly been happy about it, 
> it would definitely have been worth it, to keep a good system that actually 
> worked properly.
> 
> Simon
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Derek Hornby" <derek.hornby_uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <ntnm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2014 9:57 AM
> Subject: [ntnm] Re: newspapers by email if it wasn't broke why fix it
> 
> 
> Good points Kevin,
> 
> I wonder how many people would have been willing to pay a higher
> Subscription, if that was the only way  to keep what  we had.
> 
> Derek
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ntnm-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ntnm-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Kevin Greenan
> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2014 8:38 AM
> To: ntnm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [ntnm] Re: newspapers by email if it wasn't broke why fix it
> 
> Hello Folks,
> I have been a long time subscriber to the TNAUK Service, and have enjoyed
> reading both the e text and download service. As a recent subscriber to this
> 
> list, I have been reading all the posts with interest, and as a result, have
> 
> a suggestion which I feel would have solved the whole issue.
> 
> If it is the case that RNIB took over TNAUK because of funding issues, would
> 
> it not have been more propitious to subsidise the service, thus allowing us
> to keep what worked very well, and also have avoided the unnecessary and
> enforced redundancies from Heathfield?
> 
> Kevin Greenan.
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Derek Hornby
> Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2014 11:19 PM
> To: ntnm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [ntnm] Re: newspapers by email if it wasnt broke why fix it
> 
> And why  do they say:
> 
> 
> "Our tests to date  have been successful"
> 
> This is not really  true.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ntnm-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ntnm-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Badger
> Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2014 10:50 PM
> To: ntnm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [ntnm] Re: newspapers by email if it wasnt broke why fix it
> 
> I only joined in January, and I found the service to be fantastic. Now it's
> convoluted, slow and annoying. A lot of the titles have 3 or 4 links when
> you go in to them, pick the one you actually want, then you have to pick
> format and the way they are now layed out is terrible.
> 
> Also a lot of the magazines I was so excited to find I could read, such as
> top gear, have vanished.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ntnm-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ntnm-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of goshawk on horseback
> Sent: 24 May 2014 21:14
> To: ntnm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [ntnm] Re: newspapers by email if it wasnt broke why fix it
> 
> exactly! it seems like RNIB thought they could do better, so tried to do
> things there own way, rather than sticking with a perfectly good system, and
> 
> made a total hash of it!
> 
> Simon
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "stephen evans from lineone.net via dolphin guide 8"
> <stephenevans4@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <ntnm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2014 4:59 PM
> Subject: [ntnm] newspapers by email if it wasnt broke why fix it
> 
> 
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> newspapers by email full text if it wasnt broke why fix it
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> 
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