[Board] Re: Online registration

[Rob Landley]

On Tuesday 27 March 2007 21:28, Ron Blanchett wrote:
> It might be beneficial for our members but it won't help us in any
> way to get a handle on reg number or attendance numbers.
> Also what do you plan on doing when someone comes to
> the reg table and says that they reged online after the 31st
> and mailed their check and we don't have it. Are you going to
> tell them they have to pay again and who then is going to be
> responsible for keeping track of who says they paid (even if they
> didn't) and making sure that when we get the payment (if they did pay)
> that we don't cash the check.

So you stop allowing people to register through the website because snail-mail 
is slow.  Ok...

I take it they can't pay through the website, then?  (I can't tell, it doesn't 
say.  It wants me to enter my info before it tells me anything about payment 
options.  With a credit card you can check if the thing was charged just 
about instantly, Mark and I set a system like this up for the first Linucon 
where we could see registration live as it happened, and it didn't happen 
without a credit card approval or equivalent (override code for manual 
entry).  We were pondering using the web registration system at the door but 
didn't get the hardware set up in time.)

> In an ideal world where people do what they say they did this might be
> a great thing to do but in the real world their are people that like to
> take advantage of others and this is why Online Registration closes on the
> 31st. Also it closes on the 31st to allow time for mailed payments to
> arrive before the Con.

I'm confused: what exactly is the "also" in that last sentence?  You seem to 
imply you gave two reasons, but snail mail being slow is the only one I 
caught...

(I don't have a position on this issue one way or the other, I'm just trying 
to follow it...)

> -Ron

Rob