[MR] Fw: Electronic Distribution of SCA Publications - A Survey

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill McNutt" <mcnutt at pobox.com>
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 2:49 PM
Subject: Electronic Distribution of SCA Publications - A Survey


> I have opened an electronic survey to get a rough count of Paid Members
(tm)
> of the SCA who would be willing or unwilling to take TI and the Kingdom
> Newsletters in electronic format to reduce production and distribution
costs
> and perhaps lower the financial problems the national organization has
> recently advertised.
>
> My first response to the recent Request for Comments (RPC) from the SCA
> Board of Directors was to wonder what cost cost cutting measures might be
> available.  Being a technologist by nature, my first thought was that it
is
> possible to distribute large, complicated, and graphically rich documents
in
> a fairly simple, inexpensive manner, using the free Acrobat File Reader by
> Adobe.  With that in mind, I have opened this simple survey to get a rough
> count of folks in the SCA who might be willing to cut postal and
production
> costs for our newsletters by accepting them via electronic distribution
and
> printing them themselves, or keeping them in electronic form.  Right now I
> don't know how long the BoD is going to wait for comment, so I'll presume
> the window is short, and ask you to fill out this survey by 2/22/2002.
>
> I encourage you to cross-post this announcement to any newletters or
> newgroups that might find it relevant.
>
> The URL for the survey is located at
> http://www.outreach.utk.edu/McNutt/SCA/digitalscapublications.htm
>
> Thank You,
> THL William McNaughton - Loose Cannon
> Thor's Mountain, Meridies
> Disclaimer
>
> This is not an authorized publication by anybody for any particular
reason,
> except me.  My Barony, Kingdom, and the SCA haven't authorized me to take
> this survey, or asked me to do it.  In fact, one or more of them will
> probably jack-slap me in a public forum for being a Loose Cannon.  So
don't
> hold them responsible for not responding if the survey doesn't tell them
> what they want to hear, or for any spelling errors or procedural failures.