Re: [Fwd: Newsletters, etc..]

From: hlg@pacbell.net
Date: Fri Jan 14 2000 - 17:45:12 PST


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        West Wight Potter Mailing List maintainer
                dfarrell@ridgecrest.ca.us
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In the case of the Potter Yachters, the newsletter is our main expense. Our
events are mostly get-togethers where everyone pays their own way. Other
special expenses are covered by special fees or any surplus in the
treasury.

If we do offer an electronic version of the Potter Yachter, I would
recommend that it be e-mailed only to members who request it and that it
not be available on the web site. Those receiving their newsletter by
e-mail can print out the PDF file if they want a hardcopy. In that way all
members, and only members, will receive a newsletter. In any case, I would
like to see the newsletter continued, for the reasons that Lars presented.

I would like to see an exchange arrangement among the regional Potter clubs
so any club's newsletter can report on interesting items from the other
regions and, with permission, reprint articles from other club newsletters.

Another possibility might be to have one super Potter newsletter that
members of all clubs will receive and that will include the activities of
all the Potter clubs as well as general interest Potter articles.
Non-club-members could also subscribe to the newsletter. That might require
a paid editor but could save the individual clubs from having to find a
volunteer each year. It would be more like a Potter magazine but would have
to have timely distribution so that notices of events would be received on
time. That is, the time from submission of articles to publication would
have to be much quicker than typical magazines. Maybe it could even be
bimonthly like Messing About in Boats.

We do carry club news on our web site, but the newsletter can have articles
that are not available on the web site. What appears on the web page and
what goes into the newsletter is left to the separate editors to decide.

Harry

>Another point. I am a member of a club that offered a year before last
>either online or mailed newsletters. The club had a hard time getting
>people to pay their membership last year since one could just go to the web
>and see what was happening. Unfortunately this implies that a large
>proportion of one's fee is geared towards receiving a tangible newsletter,
>when in reality it's not.
>Thanks,
>
>-Scott
>
>PS if you could forward that to the PotterYachter person, I would
>appreciate it. I deleted her mail.



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