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Re: F5-E subscriptions

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From: JULIAN GUTHRIE CASTLE
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 20:32
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In article <BxKCCD.DFE@nic.umass.edu>, quilty@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Humberto Humbertoldi) writes:
|> In article <BxEtuC.8Fq@well.sf.ca.us> jerod23@well.sf.ca.us (Jerod Pore) writes:
|> >But, we do have a question for everyone.  Just *how* do we go about doing
|> >this massive e-mailing?  Do we wait until we have an 'issue' of F5-E and 
|> >send out all the review files at once?  Or do we send out the latest files
|> >as they are finished?

|> My "vote" is for F5-E to be published in "issues." Perhaps it would

I vote that reviews that are written for Factsheet Five
be sent out as they are written and at the end of every
month all the reviews are put together in the style of
the old Factsheet Five as the "December issue" or the
"January Issue" (editor should decide if it is a monthly
or bi-weekly schedule)
That's my opinion, I'd like to 'comment' on Humberto's.

|> even be possible to have a somewhat topical theme to these issues...
|> like, the "hardcore issue" or the "sex issue" or whatever.  I know

Interesting idea but I don't think that's the way Factsheet
Five worked.  Maybe if the editor notices "Hey I've got 25
articles and reviews about sex"  then there could be a "sex"
issue.

|> that I get enough email that I would probably lose track of individual
|> reviews if they all got sent separately... even ones that I might be

If a monthly (or biweekly) conglomoration is in action
you won't have to worry about losing individual reviews.

|> 	Also, from the point of view of redistribution, I think issues
|> -- especially topical issues -- would be better.

So new readers would look back at previous issues ??

Yours Sincerely,
	Julian Castle

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