As the webmaster for two standards committees, I can vouchsafe that producing electronic versions of paper documents, such as Metric Today, is not a trivial matter. Then there's the maintenance of the electronic membership file, etc. Also, spare copies of Metric Today are often given to industry leaders, government officials, people asking for a sample copy, and so forth. Adding an electronic version without eliminating the paper version would save no time or effort; instead it would add considerably to those.
Jim kilopascal wrote: > > 2002-04-04 > > You can still make it available to those who pay dues. They can download it > in doc or pdf format via a password. A password available only to those > that are paid members. Or you can set it up to be emailed to dues paying > members. This way everybody gets it in a timely manner and there is no > postage charges to the USMA. Plus, if the newsletter can be done entirely > electronically, there would be no printing charges. That would be a cost > savings and maybe a savings in officers time spent on handling the > newsletters. No? > > John > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Hillger, Don" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, 2002-04-04 17:28 > Subject: [USMA:19230] RE: Back to Metric? > > Ezra and others: > > For those of you who don't receive Metric Today, the cover story for the > last issue was about labeling. It would be nice if we could do an > electronic newsletter and make it available to all, but then who would > pay dues? You are missing out if you don't get the newsletter.... -- Metric Methods(SM) "Don't be late to metricate!" James R. Frysinger, CAMS http://www.metricmethods.com/ 10 Captiva Row e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Charleston, SC 29407 phone/FAX: 843.225.6789
