Haas Company Needs Your Help!

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INTERNET COLLEGE ATHLETICS NETWORK
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Gang,
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Apologies for the spam, but I need your help (again).??I am a second year
MBA at Haas and my company?is broadcasting the Texas (15) - Texas A&M (6)
tennis match tomorrow.? Akamai?is our distribution partner, but we are
encoding at different bit rates this time; so, we need additional
data.??Also, we are formatting for Windows Media ONLY this go around.? (Why,
you ask.? Well, I kept waking up in the middle of the night with a voice in
my head saying, "Microsoft will assimilate you.? It is futile to resist..."?
We junked the Real Player.)
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Anyway, it would be a HUGE help to us if you would take a few minutes to
watch the broadcast, and then submit an online questionnaire about your
viewing "experience."? We get much better?data from people who are
proficient in using computers (i.e. Haas students), so?we appreciate any
help you can offer us.
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The match starts tomorrow (Saturday) at 11:00 here on the west coast, and
will go on for about 3.5 hours.? You can see it at www.universitysports.tv .?
Ten minutes of viewing (or attempted viewing!) would be plenty for our
purposes.? But, the match should be pretty entertaining if you want to stick
around and watch.? It features two top-ranked college teams?who are?heated
rivals.? You can read a short write up on the match and the broadcast from
USA Today:
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http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/2001-04-11-tennis.htm
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Thanks in advance for your help!
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Geoff Karren
MBA '01
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