Hi Roy;
The internet groups do in fact largely fill the role,
at least for those with internet access. I'm not sure
if that is at a level where you write off everyone
else yet (some prominent S Scale builders would be
excluded if the SIGs were solely based on internet
groups).
OTOH, since a couple of clubs at least HAVE taken the
route of providing web-only newsletters, maybe the
time is at hand, particularly if some arraingment can
be made to provide print outs for the non-computer
users. There is certainly still advantage to an
organzied and edited newsletter (see the PRR Keystone
Modeler for a shining example that is superior in
production to most in print hobby journals) over the
semi-random collection of newsgroup postings.
Pieter
--- Roy Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> One of my goals as President was to model the NASG
> after the NMRA is
> far as services go. The Mobley Library is an
> example. I pitched the
> idea of having SIG's within the NASG (not under the
> NMRA, but similar
> to the NMRA). The October 2003 Pres message in the
> Dispatch outlined
> my proposal. However, at that time I abandoned the
> idea because of the
> lack of response (There was 1). I thought it would
> be nice to have
> groups like that that could get together at the
> conventions and meets.
> But, actually, we have achieved that with the
> S-Scale Yahoo group get
> together at the NASG national convention.
>
> That brings up the following thought. There are
> yahoo groups for just
> about everything S: scale, AF/hirail, Sn3, Proto
> 1:64, S modern
> prototypes, and so on. There are general SIG's like
> the LDSIG (layout
> design) and PFMSIG for Proto/freelance modelers that
> are based as
> yahoo groups. Don't all these groups fill the
> function of a SIG?
>
> Roy
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