is there All access for hockey this year?

[redice]

[quote ugarte][quote Chris 02]Well by all of the posting I read here on eLynah, I'm one person who has held back their $$$ for signing up for this service.  I think if the weekly complaints went away, I'd be more interested.  Word of mouth counts for something.[/quote]Second.[/quote]


Third!!
Does anyone know if All-Access is making podcasts available?   As someone who cannot get adequate bandwidth to support streaming video, I would pay the money to All-Access just to get the podcasts.   I've written & told them that podcasts is what it will take to get my business.  That still stands.

[Rosey]

I feel blessed to be able to travel to see most of the games, but at 11 hours of driving per home weekend plus lodging expenses, I appreciate that most people even at a similar distance wouldn't be able to do the same.

I'm sick and tired of their excuses: functionality last year was acceptable for me, but this year it has gotten strictly worse and for no good reason that I can tell: it's not like reliability went up in exchange for having to boot into Windows to see the games.

I've bitched in vain to CSTV already, and I'll bitch to Cornell next time I'm on campus.  I still know a few people who might be able to do something if they knew about the problem (which they probably don't, because I imagine most of the mails to the AD go to /dev/null, not to University Relations).  But then I think: is it possible they still don't know that this is hurting them in the donations dept.?

Kyle

[nyc94]

[quote Rita]I know there are worse ways to blow $6.95/month. [/quote]

Throwing it out of a moving car?  Count me in the group that was scared off by the glowing reviews here.  I'll settle for opponents free audio and going to games when possible.  Absent that, reading the updates here will have to do.

[Beeeej]

[quote krose]I've bitched in vain to CSTV already, and I'll bitch to Cornell next time I'm on campus.  I still know a few people who might be able to do something if they knew about the problem (which they probably don't, because I imagine most of the mails to the AD go to /dev/null, not to University Relations).  But then I think: is it possible they still don't know that this is hurting them in the donations dept.?[/quote]

Not to pick on you in particular, but I often wonder why people think that if they send their letters to one person, everyone else who they think should be aware of the issue will have it forwarded to them.  In a perfect world, maybe, but this ain't one.  So if you know a few people who might be able to do something if they knew about the problem, send your letters to those people.  Include the AD as a CC.  And if you really want the university to know that it's hurting them in the donations department (they're gonna kill me, I know it), include John Webster in Athletics AA&D, Laurie Robinson in central AA&D, and Mary Berens in Alumni House.

What You Should Not Do is "threaten" to withhold donations unless they solve the problems about which you're writing to them - even if you will.  In fact it's generally ill-advised even to explain that you have already decreased your level and frequency of giving because of your frustration with something - even if you have.  You should probably also not mention the HockeyCam controversy, because then it may look to the administration like Age or John put you up to it, even if nothing could be further from the truth.

Make your letter as brief as possible, explaining that the service was already bad and unreliable last year, has gotten more expensive and yet less reliable and worse this year, and this frustrates you as an alumnus who simply wants to stay connected to the university as much as possible through this experience that you love so much.

Not in those words, of course.

Cornell just announced a $4 billion dollar capital fundraising campaign.  Not that they don't consider every gift important - believe me, they do - but if you threaten to withhold future gifts and you've given $25 once every two or three years since graduating ten years ago, they're going to put you in the crank file.  They have bigger fish to fry, and they get threats to withhold donations all the time - including matching threats from people on opposite sides of one issue, which are about as useless as you might imagine.

(Believe it or not, there are alumni who make such threats despite having never made a gift to Cornell.  Guess how seriously they get taken?)

But if enough people write thoughtful letters to the right people explaining how frustrating it is for devoted Cornellians such as themselves to find themselves locked out of one of their favorite Cornell-related experiences, which is their one cherished opportunity to reconnect with their beloved alma mater from hundreds and thousands of miles away, and it's wrong that they be asked to spend more money on lesser services, and the service provider seems completely unfeeling and unresponsive to their complaints, and they fervently hope that something can be done about it, we might actually see some movement.

[KeithK]

[quote Beeeej]Cornell just announced a $4 billion dollar capital fundraising campaign.  Not that they don't consider every gift important - believe me, they do - but if you threaten to withhold future gifts and you've given $25 once every two or three years since graduating ten years ago, they're going to put you in the crank file.  They have bigger fish to fry[/quote]Beeeej is right, of course.  But if you happen to be or know someone who has already committed an eight figure gift to the University then you might get some traction.  Anyone know if Mr. Gates is a hockey fan?

[jtwcornell91]

Wow, it gets even worse.  The application to block IE7 install is only available if you're running Windows "Genuine Advantage" spyware.
::rolleyes::::smashfreak::::fight::

[Rita]

[quote jtwcornell91]Wow, it gets even worse.  The application to block IE7 install is only available if you're running Windows "Genuine Advantage" spyware.
::rolleyes::::smashfreak::::fight::[/quote]

Can you set your system preferences to "manually or custom" install software? The computer guru at work did that to the windows side of my macbook. Thus I now get a notice that software updates are available and I have to check the one that I want to install.