Puntz,

I have a lot of empathy for what you are saying and think your idea for a help line has a lot of merit as I am just an old Luddite. We are not all computer programmers or computer junkies and being either provides us with nil punting prowess, but it would sure help with the bookwork.

Good punters are good punters and vis-a-vis regardless of computer skills [ buying the best recipe books in the world won't turn anybody into a chef ] and having them provide one of many very handy punting tools but does not automatically confer expertize of the many other tools and attributes required to become a good punter.

' Computer skill = big punting profit $$$ ' is marketing hype by program floggers and puter programmers/junkies are their best customers and free promoters but often are the only ones who get much out of them.

If program floggers, including those for Horse racing [ and yes, I know there are some great racing programs out there including PPP ] were half decent salesmen, they would quickly realize the the majority of their potential customers have extremely limited skill with puters and some effort to rectify this would open up a whole new market. I only ever bought one program for racing and found out only after parting with the bucks that DOS [ Dos who ? ] skills were required to use it. It remains to this day unused in a bottom draw. What puter programs can do is one thing highly promoted, but a step by step how to use them, mostly remains a very thin on the ground, grey puddle.

That Bank manager who lost 18 mil. to IAS was obviously good with computers, but what a hopeless punter !!!


Cheers.


[ This Message was edited by: crash on 2004-01-15 11:13 ]