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Lloyd\'s MIU Free AIS

Hi. I am sad to see that you have removed the thread which offers members of YBW free access to the Lloyd's MIU's largest AIS network (www.lloydsmiu.com/ais) - this was an initiative designed to help promote the wider issue of AIS to the yachting community and the company would have received NO FINANCIAL GAIN.
 
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Rules is rules tho! I had a little mooch about on the site, and everywhere I went it asked me to sign up for subs. It was pretty blatant corporate advertising! Lots and lots of free non commercial AIS sites about, plenty been posted on here too...
 
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Rules is rules tho! I had a little mooch about on the site, and everywhere I went it asked me to sign up for subs. It was pretty blatant corporate advertising! Lots and lots of free non commercial AIS sites about, plenty been posted on here too...

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Whilst I am the Marketing Director of Lloyd's MIU I am also a keen yachtsman (keep an Excalibur 36 in the Solent). I just thought that it may be of use to show fellow sailors how AIS works etc. I am under no illusion, and do not expect any one at YBW to sign up for our paid for offerings. I have no problem if you want to remove this post - I was only trying to foster better links between the commercial and leisure sector.
 
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Thank you for highlighting this free service. As a boaty type I was not aware of this website and I am sure it will be useful in future. I am sure that Lloyds makes the majority of its money from elsewhere ! /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
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To register me the site seemed to require to know my job title and the name of the company I work for, neither applicable in my case.

Alan
 
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Mark, Hi.

Whilst I appreciate your point, I can honestly say that the original post was a "look what I have found" post that so often appears on these forums as spam, and as it says in the rules and regs, members are not permitted to advertise etc etc etc etc. so I am unsurprised IPC decided that it was inappropriate.
If YOU had posted and said "hi, I'm the marketing manager for Lloyd's MIU and would appreciate the forum's opinion on our super-dooper AIS site" It would have been much better recieved by the powers that be.
Oh yeah, I'm not a miserable git, I see you have 20+ posts so no doubt loads of us have said 'ello already!

Cheers

James

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The original post was an advert for a commercial site and phrased as if from an unconnected individual. The fact that it was the poster's first offering made its nature all the more obvious.

It was a bad move on three points: it was a breach of forum rules, it was bad forum etiquette and the poor attempt at disguise was an insult to our intelligence.
 
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Once again - sorry if I/we have offended anyone. I thought informing the participitants of a major pleasure boating forum about the availability of a FREE ais site was a reasonable thing to do. My company gains NO commercial benefit from this but is happy to offer this as it helps foster and promote better understanding between the commercial and pleaure sectors of boating. T
 
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I subscribed to it and surprise surprise, it's a poor offering at best. AIS live (the free version or the paid up one) is leagues ahead of it. The Irish Sea is devoid of ships, when in reality it has some of the busiest shipping routes in the world...

That's my attempt at "promoting better understanding between the commercial and pleasure sectors of boating."
 
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