Re: Re: Re: Latest TAG

["Mary McCaw" <marymccaw@mediaone.net>]

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From: <nfrank@mindspring.com>
To: "Mary McCaw" <marymccaw@mediaone.net>
Cc: <nfrank@mindspring.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 5:13 PM
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Latest TAG


> In the last few days since I last talked to you, the SC has discussed the
idea of upgrading the postage. They have approved the upgrade, provided that
the cost is in the ~$1.50 ballpark that I suggested. In other words, the SC
has conditionally approved it without a need to increase the dues.   I came
up with that estimate based on an assumed 20cents for bulkmail issue vs.
55cents for 1st. THis translates to $1.40 per US member per year. I assume
that our current printing/mailing costs are less than $12 per member... but
I cant be sure because I have not seen an annual accounting in years. But I
do know we are sitting on a big cushion, so we dont have to wait till jan
2002 to make the decision.

Okay, fine with me.

> When you get a chance, can you please check with your mail service to find
out what the incremental cost would be for 1st class. Hopefully, they have a
cheap way of placing the stamp (indicia).

I will ask them.
>
> One the subject of color printing of the contest results, I am not
necessarily going to support the expense of printing them the way they were
done last year. If we were going to print them, I would prefer fewer pics
and larger ones(less white space).... even if it means a staple in the
middle. When you get to my age, small pics dont cut it anymore!

You don't understand the problem.  In order to print decent sized color
pictures of reasonable quality, we need at least 200 dpi.  For a good
picture, we need 500 -600 dpi.  The pictures we had of the winning entries
were no where close to the requirements.  We had to print them that small to
get the necessary dpis.

We could just not print some of the really poor pictures and just include
them on the web site.

But there was no way we could have made the pictures in the special issue
any better!!  This is, as I understand it, per Erik and the printers.

However, if you think you could do better, you are more than welcome to edit
that issue.  Be my guest.  I would have no problems with that.  Otherwise,
no complaints!

Mary


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