On Fri, 5 Aug 2005 at 19:50:08, gwicks wrote:
(ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
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>----- Original Message ----- From: "Derek Stewart"
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 10:38 PM
>Subject: Re: [ql-users] A4 or A5
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>>I would like the magazine kept the way it is now.
>>
>> Not sure about downloadable version,. this would mean non-subscribers
>>would have access to the magazine.
>>
>> But I guess this has been thought out.
>>
>
>Thought out, but not yet worked out. There are two possibilities. One
>is bulk emailing
... but not with the actual pdf, as that will increase the size a lot.
The files has to be encoded into ASCII. Simply give a URL. Also users
can choose when to collect. If you are on dialup, there is nothing more
annoying than 1mb at peak time!
> and the other is a closed section on the website. However no one on
>the Quanta Committee has experience of either so we would have to have
>external expertise.
>
>Downloading was thought up some years ago as a way of reducing costs,
>and if I remember rightly came from members at an AGM. The magazine is
>Quanta's biggest single expense. However savings would only be in
>postage and not in printing. Obviously the printer has to make a living
>and his only savings would be paper and ink costs,
Why? I don't understand the logic. If you print fewer it must cost
less. With Quanta's print run (and quality) he is -not- using expensive
plates.
Tony
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