RE: optout option

["Genade Tyrone <tgenade at sun_ac.za>" <tgenade at sun_ac.za>]

Lets hold a poll...

Who here would list in the online (lets say weekly) BNL if it existed?

Tyrone Genade 

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ralph [mailto:eclod2002 at yahoo_com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 4:01 PM
> To: killietalk at aka_org
> Subject: optout option
> 
> 
> Hi all,
>  
> We are having very similar discussions in the IBC (of which I 
> am the editor of their journal) for some time now, various 
> members have loudly voiced the option that an online-only 
> version of our journal, Flare! be made available (possibly 
> for a slightly reduced membership fee).  As Jim just pointed 
> out, this may be an option for the AKA?
>  
> This option was not taken into consideration until this year. 
>  At the current time, the IBC is considering an opt-out 
> option for electronic versions of Flare!  Luckily, our 
> printer is willing to give us the same cost for a reduced run 
> of our bimonthly journal.  Therefore, it will cost us the 
> same (per issue) to print 1/2 the required number if that if 
> 1/2 the mmebership elects to have an electronic membership.
>  
> Would this be an option for the AKA?  Of cousre, this would 
> not solve the instant updating of stock availability issue, 
> which I believe is the Fish and Egg List's greatest draw-back.
>  
> Ralph
> 
> James Graham <busterg at voyager_net> wrote:
> Everybody needs to keep an open mind to new ways of doing 
> things. Maybe it
> should be an option to receive the BNL via a-mail or have it 
> is posted on
> the website on a certain date every month. I don't "need" a 
> paper copy in
> my hand and if it was posted on the website I could always 
> find it! I agree
> we don't want to cut out folks who don't use new technology but that
> shouldn't stop us from making use of it in ways not ostracize 
> those folks.
> One of the members of my local fish club ( who just happens 
> to be one of the
> members of the charter committee ) still brings fish to our 
> meetings in
> glass jars and communicates via the mail as he doesn't like 
> using the phone.
> Some folks just don't like the new fangled stuff.
> 
> Jim Graham
> Hastings MI
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Catherine Carney" 
> To: 
> Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 9:00 AM
> Subject: Re: KillieTalk Digest V5 #325
> 
> 
> > > Larry, as a BOT member, I can assure you not to worry, 
> the BNL will
> > remain
> > > in paper form as long as I have a say. The AKA values all 
> members, not
> > just
> > > those online.
> >
> > This is the gist of the post I sent earlier today. I too 
> will work to
> ensure
> > that members who wish to receive paper copies will continue 
> to receive
> them
> > in a timely manner (or as timely as we can get with the sometimes
> > not-so-cooperative USPS).
> >
> > Catherine
> >
> >
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> Ralph
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