I’m in a situation where I need to send out large numbers of emails - now, settle down, I’m not talking Spam! Rather, I am the Member Communication/Liason Officer for a sporting organisation, and need to send many emails out to either a subset of the community, or in some cases, the whole community.
I’m thinking about different methods to streamline my communication processes. I think I have a few options:
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Google.Oz (in reality, google.com.au) has a special Melbourne Cup image:
After my last rantpost, this bugs me too.
I’ve never understood the fascination Australians have with horse racing in general, and the Melbourne Cup specifically. Mind you, I’m not a real big fan of motor racing for that matter either.
Anyway, back to “the sport of kings.” My sister is a Vet, and races Pacers (which, I just learned a week or so ago, are different to Trotters), and obviously she and her husband are kind-of into horse racing. Whenever I’ve been out drinking and horse racing has been happening, (like at Dan’s bucks night, and Sam’s bucks night, and so on) I’ll ring Tish and ask her for a tip. Either she doesn’t have good tips for normal horse racing, or just likes feeding me duds, as none of them have ever come in.
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