[MR] A proposal for the hard copy Acorn

[Michael Houghton]

Howdy!

On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 03:42:25PM +0000, oswald at chesapeake.net wrote:
> Please bear with me all, I've not posted here before....
> 
> I, too, recieve my hard copy Acorn so late as for it be pointless (Feb 4 for 
> Jan)the majority of the time.
> 
> Since we quite apparently cannot change the US Postal Service, perhaps we could 
> consider changing The Acorn?
> 
> Specifically, could January's Acorn (which arrives near the beginning of Feb) 
> carry event announcements for Feb (and late Jan?) instead of Jan?  I do not 
> know if the Kingdom Chronicler reieves the event announcements in a timely 
> enough fashion to do this.  But, if so, sending the Feb announcements in the 
> Jan Acorn would at least make the event announcements in the Jan Acorn relevant 
> again.  It does seem rather a waste of many people's time, effort, funds 
> (trees?) to send announcements for events that are almost certainly past by the 
> time the majority of the subscribers recieve them.
> 
> The various missives from various officers, functionaries and so on , will be 
> as relevant as ever and meet various hard copy publication requirements 
> whenever they are recieved.  But it seems to me that this owuld be a way to 
> regain the usefulness of the event announcement portion.
> 
Alternately, the chronicler's policy that forbids posting flyers to the
kingdom web site prior to publication could be dropped. That would allow
the online calendar to be useful as a planning tool and would reward events
that are sufficiently organized to have useful information available farther
in advance. 

yours,
Herveus
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