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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: USERS' GROUPS - Request for Newsletter Swap
Message-ID: <2917@corpane.UUCP>
Date: 5 Sep 90 15:04:36 GMT
References: <33499@cup.portal.com>
Organization: Corpane Industries Inc., Louisville, KY
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LadyHawke@cup.portal.com (Classic - Concepts) writes:


>                Amiga Users' Groups -- Newsletter Swap
>                ======================================


>     We don't have a contact phone number yet, but we may be setting up a
>BBS in the future.  We'll keep you posted.  Oh, by the way.  We'd love to
>find ways to share this newsletter electronically, and save a few trees,
>but we haven't found a way to do that and still protect the copyrights,
>pictures of artists who contribute images to the newsletter.  If you have
>any suggestions in this direction, let us know.

[I would have just emailed this to July but I figure that some others out
there might be interested in what our usergroup is doing]

Our usergroup has went from publishing a paper newsletter to publishing
a disk based newsletter. After several attempts I finally conviced them to 
change. My arguments were:

1> Less hassling with desk top publishing software.
2> We can include pictures and sounds with the articles
3> The savings in photocopying, stapling and folding alone would pay the 
   difference alone in the added cost of mailing the disks and the disks
   themselves.
4> If they are worried too much about the costs, they could always tell the
   members: "Either give us 12 blank disks to cover the cost of the newsdisk
   or give us $6 to cover the cost"

We have been doing it for around 3 issues now and it keeps getting better 
all the time. As of right now the group is being really cheap and not mailing
them out, you have to go to the meeting to pick up your disk. But the disk is
free, covered by the cost of membership.

In addition to this we also have a monthly software disk, culled from 
submissions to the clubs BBS. This disk is a trade, one blank disk for it.


It is all menu driven, with a special program written in CanDo by our president
Chuck Welsh. 

July, I will forward your letter to the usergroup and if they want to swap 
newsletters, they will contact you, ok?


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