[MR] Acorn

[Vels inn Viggladi]

> > Thusily I think there should be a new
> >membership benifit available on www.sca.org. You should be able to look
> >at/download  any Kingdom Publication you subscribe to electronically in 
>pdf
> >format.
>
>I think this is a wonderful idea, but why even bother to require a
>subscription? It's not as if we're paying the authors for content. Make all
>kingdom newsletter freely available on the web, and make web delivery the
>default. Those who need paper copies can pay for them. The savings in
>printing costs and postage would more than make up for the extra bandwidth
>used.
>
>Owain Penbras
>Buckston-on-Eno, Windmaster's Hill


I'd agree this would generally be a good idea, but there are more things to 
consider. Namely, the "Network Neutrality" of the internet is being 
challenged currently in Congress. Simplified, this means that Service 
Providers are attempting to have the internet come to you based on which 
websites pay them more. Long term view (yes, yes, 'the sky is falling') this 
would then mean that we'd be paying more to be able to get to our our 
newsletters.
Today's fixes make for tomorrow's problems if we are not careful.



Vels
and check out snopes.com for Network Neutrality if you feel the need for 
more clarification on that front.