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Hi,

I have a pair of Fischer CLS3 skis that I've never used. It says the
cut is 89-64-80. What exactly do these measurements mean. Also can
any of you tell if it's a carving ski from that info alone. Would
they be good enough for someone who's at an intermediate to good level

Ta

J

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"james gouldsbury" wrote in message
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Hi,

I have a pair of Fischer CLS3 skis that I've never used. It says the
cut is 89-64-80. What exactly do these measurements mean. Also can
any of you tell if it's a carving ski from that info alone. Would
they be good enough for someone who's at an intermediate to good level

Ta

J

My guess is that it's millimeters, tip, waiste, tail.

My 205cm slalom skis were carving skis. All downhill skis are if you know
how to ski. As to what level those are intended for? Don't they have a
website?

pigo

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"lal_truckee" wrote in message
...
pigo wrote:

Don't they have a
website?

Yep. I sent them the following message:

"Someone asked about one of your skis - the obvious place to find out is
your web site. I'm posting the following to usenet re your web site:
"It's one of those gawd-awful sites with music and crap graphics that
resizes your browser window and generally makes your life miserable.
Since there's no obvious search available you can't find pertinent
information, and there's no historical data, and the content content
available is lame, I suggest you stay far away from the Fischer site."

I suggest you fire your web designer, and hire someone who knows how to
design for actual use rather than impressing the company presidents and
chairman."

Good for you.

I once complained about the new website of an amateur sports organization on
which I depend for information on an almost-daily basis. The new look
started with a long animated entry screen extolling the organization's
virtues that took 20 minutes to load on a cable modem (and my old 486
machine). I got a nice email from the association president and the flashy
intro was gone the next day.

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lal_truckee wrote:

Yep. I sent them the following message:

"Someone asked about one of your skis - the obvious place to find out is
your web site. I'm posting the following to usenet re your web site:
"It's one of those gawd-awful sites with music and crap graphics that
resizes your browser window and generally makes your life miserable.
Since there's no obvious search available you can't find pertinent
information, and there's no historical data, and the content content
available is lame, I suggest you stay far away from the Fischer site."

I suggest you fire your web designer, and hire someone who knows how to
design for actual use rather than impressing the company presidents and
chairman."

You could have at least given them my name... :)


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pigo wrote:

Don't they have a
website?

Yep. I sent them the following message:

"Someone asked about one of your skis - the obvious place to find out is
your web site. I'm posting the following to usenet re your web site:
"It's one of those gawd-awful sites with music and crap graphics that
resizes your browser window and generally makes your life miserable.
Since there's no obvious search available you can't find pertinent
information, and there's no historical data, and the content content
available is lame, I suggest you stay far away from the Fischer site."

I suggest you fire your web designer, and hire someone who knows how to
design for actual use rather than impressing the company presidents and
chairman."

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"Richard Henry" writes:


I once complained about the new website of an amateur sports organization on
which I depend for information on an almost-daily basis. The new look
started with a long animated entry screen extolling the organization's
virtues that took 20 minutes to load on a cable modem (and my old 486
machine). I got a nice email from the association president and the flashy
intro was gone the next day.


I guess you are lucky. Most web admins nowadays will answer you that they
have designed their site for IE 7.4.22 or higher on Mozilla 8.9.44 and if
you don't run one of these, tough luck.

The worst example is my UK HSBC bank which only works with IE forcing me
to find a Windows machine to access that site (no IE for
Solaris/Linux/AIX/...). No wonder I use telephone banking with them more
often then Internet. And when I complain, they don't even understand the
problem! Ugh.

Anyway, to come back to skiing, my local hill http://www.bluemountain.ca/
had a great snow condition site where you can see open and closed runs and
lifts but have now closed it ("no longer able to handle the amount of
traffic", according to the web site). Come on people, Blue Mountain belongs
to Intrawest, they can afford faster machines and/or wider pipe!

Bye, Dragan

--
Dragan Cvetkovic,

To be or not to be is true. G. Boole No it isn't. L. E. J. Brouwer

!!! Sender/From address is bogus. Use reply-to one !!!

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in article , Chester Bullock at
wrote on 1/27/04 9:19 AM:

lal_truckee wrote:

Yep. I sent them the following message:

"Someone asked about one of your skis - the obvious place to find out is
your web site. I'm posting the following to usenet re your web site:
"It's one of those gawd-awful sites with music and crap graphics that
resizes your browser window and generally makes your life miserable.
Since there's no obvious search available you can't find pertinent
information, and there's no historical data, and the content content
available is lame, I suggest you stay far away from the Fischer site."

I suggest you fire your web designer, and hire someone who knows how to
design for actual use rather than impressing the company presidents and
chairman."

You could have at least given them my name... :)


Why? So they can have a pathological liar and all around asshole working on
their site?

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Sven Golly writes:

Dragan Cvetkovic wrote in news:lmn0891exf.fsf_-
:

!!! Sender/From address is bogus. Use reply-to one !!!

Just curious, does this work for controlling spam at all? Or do they just
harvest your reply-to header anyway?

Surprisingly, I don't get much spam there. Most stuff I am getting there
are these stupid MS worms/virii as well as clueless replys from
virus-scanner processes with reports that "the message contained a virus
which has been deleted".

But anyway, that account is mostly a junk account anyway and heavily
filtered for spam (by gmx + few of mine personal filters).

Bye, Dragan

--
Dragan Cvetkovic,

To be or not to be is true. G. Boole No it isn't. L. E. J. Brouwer

!!! Sender/From address is bogus. Use reply-to one !!!

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lal_truckee writes:

Dragan Cvetkovic wrote:
The worst example is my UK HSBC bank which only works with IE forcing me
to find a Windows machine to access that site (no IE for
Solaris/Linux/AIX/...). No wonder I use telephone banking with them more
often then Internet. And when I complain, they don't even understand the
problem! Ugh.

Just spoof an IE identification in Mozilla. Most of these sites just look
at the browser ID and kick you out; Mozilla can often handle everything
fine, once you get past the gatekeeper.

I know. I have tried that, even tried Opera, but that browser detector seem
to be more clever (or stupid, depends how you look at it) and still refuses
to let me in without IE.

Disclaimer: my experience was some 6 months ago, so they might have changed
it, but I gave up on their internet site. I guess I should try again. Some day.

Bye, Dragan

--
Dragan Cvetkovic,

To be or not to be is true. G. Boole No it isn't. L. E. J. Brouwer

!!! Sender/From address is bogus. Use reply-to one !!!

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Dragan Cvetkovic wrote:

"Richard Henry" writes:


I once complained about the new website of an amateur sports organization on
which I depend for information on an almost-daily basis. The new look
started with a long animated entry screen extolling the organization's
virtues that took 20 minutes to load on a cable modem (and my old 486
machine). I got a nice email from the association president and the flashy
intro was gone the next day.



I guess you are lucky. Most web admins nowadays will answer you that they
have designed their site for IE 7.4.22 or higher on Mozilla 8.9.44 and if
you don't run one of these, tough luck.

The worst example is my UK HSBC bank which only works with IE forcing me
to find a Windows machine to access that site (no IE for
Solaris/Linux/AIX/...). No wonder I use telephone banking with them more
often then Internet. And when I complain, they don't even understand the
problem! Ugh.

Just spoof an IE identification in Mozilla. Most of these sites just
look at the browser ID and kick you out; Mozilla can often handle
everything fine, once you get past the gatekeeper.


Anyway, to come back to skiing, my local hill http://www.bluemountain.ca/
had a great snow condition site where you can see open and closed runs and
lifts but have now closed it ("no longer able to handle the amount of
traffic", according to the web site). Come on people, Blue Mountain belongs
to Intrawest, they can afford faster machines and/or wider pipe!

Bye, Dragan