Why you should stop posting the Criterion Daily Special.
Thomas Naughton
web service. Therefore, if you can't access their web server,
you can't order the disk (I suppose you could call a friend of
yours and have them order it, but I don't think too many people
are doing that).
I have gotten the usenet posting the day after the special
every time except once. Netnews is "store and forward", so posts
can take days to reach a site. Posting the daily special serves
as a "look what you could have ordered if you had www access" type
of message.
The amount of traffic is not that significant, but it's
not really helping anyone. Just my two cents.
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Erica Dorenkamp
sometimes it's nice to know what you missed. if you're waiting
for a particular disc, it's helpful to know what the special was
the day you couldn't check the web site. i wish criterion would
keep a list of the previously ordered specials.
i agree it's pretty useless for actually ordering the disc.
/erica
RArenzana
graphically-challenged-computers-at-
work people. Like for me for instance, at work my pc is only a 386-25 with
4 megs ram and launching Netscape takes so long... but using trn and
reading a.v.l. I could check right away what the special of the day is and
see if I like it.
So for that guy who was posting it: please continue to do that and thanks.
TerryMorgn
TerryMorgn
Naughton) writes:
> The CC daily special can ONLY be ordered through their
>web service. Therefore, if you can't access their web server,
>you can't order the disk.
Yes, but if I know what the disc is and I don't want it, I don't have to
go to
the web site, saving online time for me and reducing internet traffic.
Also,
I don't have to repeatedly try to get in if I'm having trouble getting to
Voyager
(and it sounds like a lot of us HAVE had problems getting in from time to
time).
If it's a disc I want, and I know about it, I'll keep trying to access the
page until
I get in.
> I have gotten the usenet posting the day after the special
>every time except once. Netnews is "store and forward", so posts
>can take days to reach a site. Posting the daily special serves
>as a "look what you could have ordered if you had www access" type
>of message.
Maybe for you, but not for everyone. I usually see the message the day
it was posted.
> The amount of traffic is not that significant, but it's
>not really helping anyone. Just my two cents.
Well, it helps me. I hope others will continue to post the special. Like
you said,
it's not that significant. Two more cents!
P.S. 8/14 special: For All Mankind
Terry
Mike Schwartz
> i wish criterion would keep a list of the previously ordered specials.
> i agree it's pretty useless for actually ordering the disc.
I've been keeping track of them as they've gone along. Here's the
list:
Aug 14 For All Mankind
Aug 13 North By Northwest
Aug 12 The Killer
Aug 11 Halloween
Aug 10 The Red Shoes
Aug 9 Repulsion
Aug 8 The Graduate
Aug 7 Silence of the Lambs
Aug 6 Goldfinger
Aug 5 This Is Spinal Tap
Aug 4 Akira
Aug 3 Hard Boiled
Aug 2 Blade Runner
Aug 1 Robocop
Jul 31 Citizen Kane
Mike.
Groos
Thomas Naughton <naug...@htc.com> wrote:
> The CC daily special can ONLY be ordered through their
>web service. Therefore, if you can't access their web server,
>yours and have them order it, but I don't think too many people
>are doing that).
If this is true, it's a damn shame. I will check the site daily,
but there's no way in hell I'm sending my credit card number over the
net, Netscape "secure transaction" or otherwise. Pity.
-Groos
Alec Usticke
> The amount of traffic is not that significant, but it's
> not really helping anyone. Just my two cents.
Well, it's helping me. I've gotten all the messages same day. It's a
big help. Sure, it doesn't take much to check the site, but I check
a.v.l. everyday anyway. I say keep posting!
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You won't send it over Netscape, but you're willing to give it out over the
phone? Netscape is safer.
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On Wed, 16 Aug 1995, Dennis L wrote:
>
>
> If you called criterion voice and asked for that special of the day,
> do you think they would REFUSE your money? Any good business would not
> refuse money.
>
>
>
>
Dennis L
> The CC daily special can ONLY be ordered through their
>web service. Therefore, if you can't access their web server,
>you can't order the disk (I suppose you could call a friend of
>yours and have them order it, but I don't think too many people
>are doing that).
VOYAGER
know you want to buy it, and you have an e-mail address that I can send a
receipt to. 212-431-5199. Please use this number only if you can't get to
the site. Web orders are actually much safer than phone orders.
Paul Klinger
Criterion
ccc...@black.missouri.edu
: naug...@htc.com (Thomas Naughton) wrote:
: > The amount of traffic is not that significant, but it's
: > not really helping anyone. Just my two cents.
: Well, it's helping me. I've gotten all the messages same day. It's a
: big help. Sure, it doesn't take much to check the site, but I check
: a.v.l. everyday anyway. I say keep posting!
I agree. I see the specials the day they are posted, and they are a help
to me. I have Web access, too, and will have no problem ordering over
the Web, when I have some money, that is (too bad I don't have any
now...I'd have really liked to order Princess Bride, which was on sale
today--Oh, well, I'll have to order it when it comes around again).
Also, does voyager post specials on weekends (the only days I *don't*
check Usenet)?
Cathy
Dennis L
>YES, they will refuse to take the order over the phone, you must use the Web.
>>
>>
>> If you called criterion voice and asked for that special of the day,
>> do you think they would REFUSE your money? Any good business would not
>> refuse money.
Well then I would speak to a supervisor, I just find it hard to
believe they would REFUSE money.
VOYAGER
the phone. It's easy to get me to call you back though. I don't know what
your phone experience has been with Voyager, but this will not be a
problem anymore.
Paul Klinger
VOYAGER
here, we are not going to take down the daily special if people check it
on AOL as opposed to our web-page. I understand that our page is huge, and
can be slow to download. Voyager is trying to push the envelope when it
comes to graphics on the internet. Right now we are working on an entire
3-D museum space, to navigate through. Please, if it helps, post the
special.
Paul Klinger
The Criterion Collection
Paul Klinger
Criterion
Thomas Naughton
> I think it helps to post the special. Despite what others have posted
> here, we are not going to take down the daily special if people check it
> on AOL as opposed to our web-page. I understand that our page is huge, and
> can be slow to download. Voyager is trying to push the envelope when it
> comes to graphics on the internet. Right now we are working on an entire
> 3-D museum space, to navigate through. Please, if it helps, post the
> special.
Why doesn't voyager post the daily special itself then? Since
voyager knows what the daily special is going to be, you can post at
exactly the time it becomes available (or even earlier, to help compensate
for the propagation delay).
The other possibility is to have a text only page for popular
lookups like this and the CD special. Then people could load the link
lightning fast and view the special.
Keep up the great work with the web page. It's always the one I
show people when I demonstrate the services and graphics for the Web.