Re: [GSAS-board] Newsletter by email

[Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>]

Can you send me the PDF too... I'll take a look and see why it doesn't 
print well.  I thought that PDFs were pretty much bullet-proof these days 
if you use a recent Adobe Reader to view it.

   - Erik

On Sun, 3 Sep 2006, Steev Ward wrote:

> Thanks for the suggestions Erik. Maybe you could think of some more ideas to 
> tell the
> board members (email options). I've got ten people that asked for the 
> (reduced) email
> version so far. Only one negative comment: that it doesn't print out well (if 
> you
> wanted to print it). I'm going to mail the rest of the newsletters tomorrow 
> and then
> I'll just wait and see what comes up for the next issue. Right now I've got 
> to find
> time to work on my presentation for the September meeting.
>
> Steev
>
> P.S. Do you want an email copy of the newsletter? Only 1.7 MB.
>
>
>
>
>
> --- Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com> wrote:
>
>> I've got an idea Steev... If this is popular enough, we could add a new
>> field to the database, indicating whether or not the member would like
>> their newsletter e-mailed to them.  I think we already have an e-mail
>> address field, so we'd just need the one new setting.  Then you could run
>> another script similar to the labelgen one that just gives you a list of
>> e-mail addresses.  And the labelgen script would exclude the e-mailed
>> ones.
>>
>> If it's not so nice to e-mail stuff this big directly, another thing we
>> could do is upload the newsletter to a private link on the website.  Then
>> your e-mail just a stub to "the list" that would just say "click here to
>> download this month's newsletter".
>>
>> Anyway, the option's out there.
>>
>>    - Erik
>>
>>
>
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