🚀 go-pugleaf

Clark Morris expressed valid and serious concerns about relying on
electronic distribution of mailings.  I learned long ago that I can read
paper pages much faster than screenfuls of text.  The three clear
advantages offered by e-mail distribution of a newsletter are very fast
delivery, low distribution cost, and amenability to computer search.
Images, while the sexy thing now, are painfully slow to download via
mainstream modems.
        The CIPS newsletter doesn't have much image content, so it is a
reasonable candidate for electronic distribution.  However, only the cost
advantage (to the organization) seems to clearly favour choosing this as
the primary distribution method.
        I'm not brimming over with ideas myself, but I hope we can come up
with more compelling uses of the Internet to enrich the membership services
(and attract new members).

--

---------------------------------------------------------
David Wieland, Appro Information Systems, Ottawa, Ontario
(613)526-1419