[DMVR] Re: DMVR digest, Vol 1 #11 - 1 msg

[Paul Berg]

Please sign me up for an emailed Drifting each month.  Good idea.
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>    1. Drifting by email or download (karl.thacker@earthlink.net)
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> Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 11:57:49 -0500
> Subject: [DMVR] Drifting by email or download
>
> While I realize I am speaking to a still growing audience, I need to
present
> the following:
>
> Drifting by email or download
>
> As DMVR members know each month the club sends-out Drifting, our
newsletter.
> At present we are limited to a maximum of 12 pages per month by postage
and
> printing costs.  This fact means that most months myself and Monica Shaw
are
> forced to choose what items do NOT make it into drifting.  Be it event
> photos, event stories, technical articles, or what have you.  We simply do
> not have the space each month.  And recent expectations and requests by
some
> members in what they expect Drifting to contain each month will soon have
to
> be deflated and met with reality; we do not have space to run pictures and
> details of what every participant did in every event each month.  We do
not
> even have the space for national or divisional SCCA information and
updates.
>
> This is where my request comes to be.  Receiving Drifting by email or by
> downloading it from the club web-site.
>
> There are several points to consider:
>
> o Printing costs will only continue to go up.  We are lucky in that we do
> presently receive a discount rate, but that may not always be.
> o Postage costs will only continue to go up.  We do not have the volume to
> obtain Bulk Rate discounts.
> o If you have the ability to read this email there is no reason you can't
> obtain Drifting electronically.  Then if you NEED to print it you can do
so.
> o If we are able to narrow the postal mailing of Drifting to those who
truly
> need it, we will reduce costs to the club.
> o If we are able to narrow the postal mailing of Drifting to those who
truly
> need it, we may consider enlarging the size of Drifting each month.
> o If we are able to expand an electronic Drifting we will be able to
include
> more member information, event details, tech articles, news articles,
event
> photos, etc.
> o The electronic version of Drifting is done so in Adobe PDF format which
is
> read using Adobe Acrobat, A FREE SOFTWARE PROGRAM.
> o The money saved on reducing the publishing costs of Drifting can be
better
> spent elsewhere in the club.  Awards, events, promotions, etc.
> o The problems experienced with the previous electronic Drifting have been
> resolved.  Unless you are using a Commodore64 you should have no problems.
> o You will have a saved copy of Drifting that will not age, mildew or turn
> yellow.  And unless you have serious problems, will not be stained by
> coffee......
> o I will continue to hound you until you do sign-up for electronic
Drifting.
>
> o This one is the most important:  In this day and age there is no reason
or
> justification for us wasting/using paper when we do not need to.
>
>
> These are just SOME of the arguments for an electronic Drifting that I can
> come-up with off the top of my head on a Sunday morning.  Personally, I
have
> not heard a single substantiated argument for not receiving Drifting
> electronically.  The most common I've heard is "I want to sit-down and
read
> it on paper"; well my response to that is a quite blunt 'Then print it
out'.
> I'd rather have 20 members who have to print it out themselves than have a
> single copy that is thrown to the trash and the paper is wasted.
>
> Now for the bottom-line.  This is where you need to send me an email
telling
> me one of two things:   (no, you do not need to tell me 'where to go')
>
> * Remove your mailing label and sign-you-up for my emailed Drifting each
> month
> * Remove your mailing label as someone who will download Drifting from the
> club web-site.
>
>
> Thank you.
>
> Karl Thacker
> Drifting publisher
>
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