[sac-board] Re: December SACnews Printed Issues

Stan,
We've been through this before, but I'm willing to take another lap around 
the track.

As for a mailed copy being "Official" because it has a stamp on it, who 
really is going to "make up" anything at this level? I really don't understand 
your 
reasoning here. Maybe if this were a court of law or even corporate 
corespondence, but an amateur aatronomy club? 

As for download speeds, I can't help that, I have dial up as well and the 
longest download I experienced (yes I do check this) is 5 minutes, typically 
less 
than four. Surely you can go drink a cup of coffe or play a round of solitare 
while it's downloading. To me, 4 minutes is hardly worth complaining about, 
but then that's just me.

As for printing on both sides of the page, I have to presume your using a dot 
matrix printer if you can't print on both sides of the page. While the choice 
of hardware is yours, given the current state of the art, you'll have to 
accept that most every one else CAN print on both sides of a page and that I'm 
not 
going to change things for one person.

Also, I will continue to mail the printed copies when I get them from Jack 
and get a chance to get to the post office, typically within a day of receiving 
them, but it's been know to take me a week to get the time. Once again I do 
what I can, but there are other things in life that take precedence over the 
newsletter. The only way I'm bringing them to the meeting is if I get them on 
the 
Thursday prior, and NO I won't be stamping them, I really just don't see the 
need.

I imagine you'll continue to get the newsletter by mail, That's fine by me, 
it is your option, but from the tone of your post, I'm guessing (correct me if 
I'm wrong) that you have not gone on line to get the newsletter and instead 
choose to wait till the next meeting.  Please tell me I'm wrong because it 
would 
seem to me that if so your cutting off your nose to spite your face. The 
newletter IS available to you now, all you have to do is go online to get it. 
You'll eventually get your printed copy.  

Rick Tejera
Editor SACnews
Saguaro Astronomy Club
Phoenix, Arizona
SaguaroAstro@xxxxxxx
www.saguaroastro.org


> > I have been thinking about the newsletters some more. I like to get a
> > newsletter in the mail because they are post stamped and that sort of
> > makes it an "official" document as opposed to something someone could
> > make up themselves.  The other  reason I like to get the newsletters
> > from the club rather than downloading them myself is because they are
> > usually on colored paper and double sided. Also, my download speed is
> > pretty slow - still dial up with about 19k-24k transmission speed, and I
> > cannot do duplex on my printer (an HP4m)
> >
> > Given the good job SAC is doing on notifying members of the agenda for
> > the next meeting through email, the other reason for getting newsletters
> > through U.S. mail, i.e., to be informed of  the upcoming speaker, is no
> > longer valid.
> >
> > Here is what I suggest:
> > 1. For members who elect to pick up the newsletter at the meeting, maybe
> > SAC could stamp them with a club stamp, e.g., in red ink, that would
> > serve the purpose of making it an 'official' copy.
> > 2. There could be a better way of ordering the newsletters rather than
> > being in one big pile. They may start out in alphabetical order, but by
> > the time one or two members go through them they may become disordered.
> > Why not buy one of these accordian folders and stamp the slots in
> > alphabetical order? It would be much easier for a member to quickly find
> > their newsletter, and it would make it psychologically easier for a
> > member to forego the option of getting the newsletter in U.S. mail. It
> > may be 2 or more months before I made it to a meeting to pick up my
> > newsletters, but as long as they are there and filed so that I can
> > easily get them instead of finding one, and then searching for the
> > other, it would make me happier.
> >
>

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