Do you want the tech suit back for SCY?

Where it falls into having to follow the rules, is when an LMSC is asked to pay for it financially, and by use of it's volunteering resources. Typically, LMSC's don't have the kinds of resources it takes to run informal polls, just for the sake of statistics. They are constantly battling shorthandedness in just getting much more pressing business at hand. Historically, there's about 10-20 volunteers that represent the core group that services, in our LMSC over 4000 swimmers, and around 70 clubs (I'd have to look up the statistics to be more exact). Expensive? We use iContact (not Club Assistant) to manage our email communications. The cost is pretty reasonable (MUCH less than our paper newsletter costs every month), and it includes the ability to do surveys of the type you describe. As a bonus, if you wish it limits the survey to the people subscribed to the list (ie, LMSC members). There have to be other online survey tools that are reasonably cheap. This one looks free: http://www.kwiksurveys.com But of course there is no need to do a poll just to suggest a rule change. I suppose the idea is to strengthen the case for tech suits, but of course there is no guarantee that it will do that. You can run the poll after the deadline, though.

Where it falls into having to follow the rules, is when an LMSC is asked to pay for it financially, and by use of it's volunteering resources. Typically, LMSC's don't have the kinds of resources it takes to run informal polls, just for the sake of statistics. They are constantly battling shorthandedness in just getting much more pressing business at hand. Historically, there's about 10-20 volunteers that represent the core group that services, in our LMSC over 4000 swimmers, and around 70 clubs (I'd have to look up the statistics to be more exact). Expensive? We use iContact (not Club Assistant) to manage our email communications. The cost is pretty reasonable (MUCH less than our paper newsletter costs every month), and it includes the ability to do surveys of the type you describe. As a bonus, if you wish it limits the survey to the people subscribed to the list (ie, LMSC members). There have to be other online survey tools that are reasonably cheap. This one looks free: http://www.kwiksurveys.com But of course there is no need to do a poll just to suggest a rule change. I suppose the idea is to strengthen the case for tech suits, but of course there is no guarantee that it will do that. You can run the poll after the deadline, though.