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Dominique wrote:Another idea is to try to include a problem player organization, such as gamblers anonymous or someone like that, by offering full cooperation and some funding….
Getting support from that corner might kill a lot of arguments off the bat.
Great idea; several of the oranizations I read about (not indepth by any means) seemed to look unfavorably on the UIGEA anyway, since it makes it much harder to help gamblers once they’ve been forced ‘underground’.
btw, is this something we can look for a press release on?
Great presentation J. Todd. What a clever and no-nonsense solution that will help so many.
I’ve already joined APCW and included the video on my “news” site a few weeks ago.
Glad I am a member!
kudos,
todd,
nice one! a very hypocritical blow to the same bs that is being fed to the industry. cheeky as it is, maybe you should go into politics :Nod:
Press Release
The Association of Players, Casinos and Webmasters has been seeking viable ways to bring online gaming back to American in a legal and regulated format for the past several months. It is with great pride and enthusiasm that the APCW can now officially announces our working partnership with the Veterans of Foreign Wars Webcom Network to identify and explore how the charitable online gaming model can accomplish this, while simultaneously creating a dedicated revenue stream for the Veterans Administration.
This cooperation places the APCW in a leadership role to help construct the business and legislative strategies which could bring legal and regulated online gaming to the United States. The Veterans Service Organizations would greatly benefit from the charitable gaming model, much like state lotteries have helped to fund education, especially in light of proposed budget cuts to their benefits and with a growing veteran population which already numbers several million.
The logistics and details are currently still in the discussion phase on Veterans blogs and forums, and at the APCW blog and message board.We encourage all who have an interest in online gaming to participate in the discussion process. Details can be found at http://www.APCW.org.
The administration is laying out the red carpet for this idea:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/17/AR2007021701172.html
THANK YOU FOR ALL OF YOUR SUPPORT!
The VFW is looking for positive feedback from our industry.
We would like to invite you to be apart of the conversation.
Visit our forum: http://www.apcw.org/members/reportsAPCW Industry Discussion – Charitable Gaming for Veterans
Your positive feedback will go along way with the VFWJOIN THE FIGHT!
Another webmaster offered a great idea. Petitions suck don’t they? Does anyone ever read all the signees? Nope.
“Senator, 50,000 people signed this petition what shall I do with it?”
“Put it on my desk and I will get to it later.”
Idea is this..amass all the emails of senators etc and create an email webform on your site that allows visitors to select comments from a standard subset and add their own. This would then be mass mailed to the PIP’s (people in power). 1000 emails in Sen Joe Bloe’s inbox demands immediate attention in preference to the 10,000 signee petition that may just sit in the in tray in preference to this afternoons golf game.
So, you need:
Emails of all senators, people that matter.
Webform readily dispersible to all webmasters.Can anyone do this? Out of my league currently. This is of course not spam, it is individual emails sent by individuals concerned over a mighty big rights issue, it is the public echoing their concern to the people who matter, who currently are not giving their attention. They sure would if they have to wade through 1000’s of emails that take moments to generate.
.Thoughts?
It’s a solid idea for sure…
We would be willing to host such a service, but don’t have the tech power or knowledge to build it… or the money to pay for having it built.
Maybe if the several affiliate programs who have not paid us yet would contact the very few who have paid — and ask them to explain this fancy-shmacy “bank wire” thing — then we could afford it.
Fat chance.
Techie types, it needs a regular mailform, lots of php freebie ones out there, the ability to select lines from a box to add to the content of the mail:
eg I am a mother of three and play online for fun etc….
I am a returned disabled veteran, one of my few pleasures is computer poker…A list of all senator emails, gotta be a site out there lists them. This should be a 5 moin job for someone with the know how, trying to figure it out myself now. This should cost a grand total of $0 to build and implement.
OK this site has all individual email adresses for sens and reps:
xhttp://www.webslingerz.com/jhoffman/congress-email.htmlQuote:All Americans should be in contact with their elected officials. This directory makes it easy. Pick your state from the list on the left or search for your favorite Congressperson with the form in the frame above. Many of our elected officials are now choosing to use contact forms rather than a specific email address. You can click on their names and there will usually be a contact form on their website. For the individuals that do have an email address listed (and as long as your browser preferences are set so you can use a mailto), just click on the email addresses of your Congressfolks and type away. These Congresstypes like to know that they are hearing from their constituents (and often will only be responsive if you demonstrate that you are one of their constituents), so be sure to include your snail mail address in your correspondence.This site below has a contact form for each and requires submission via the form:
xhttp://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfmOutta my depth here but shouldn’t there be able a way to create a database from the first one that the form mail will access to mass mail the users input to 1 submit = 1 email to every senator and rep and if you can get 1000 people a day doing that (very achievable).
Other alternative is a script to submit to the form fields but that seems a bit more difficult avenue.
Bottom line a mass mailing script to bozos wanting to hear from their constituents is not spam. Help.
