[ATMoB-discuss] Emailing Monthly Newsletter

[Bruce Gerhard]

Bernie,

The reason for sending the news letter as an attachment is that it can
be in PDF format.  PDF allows the recipient to print a high quality hard
copy quickly and easily.  The Adobe Acrobat reader (which handles PDF)
can be downloaded free, so anyone can handle PDF.  This is not true of
any other format I know of.

Sending the newsletter as an attachment to email is a minimal amount of
work for the person sending it (I did it for another organization for
several years) and very convenient for the person receiving it.  Putting
it on the web site would be satisfactory if -- and only if -- it would
be possible to download if in PDF format.  It would probably be more
work for the sender and certainly be clumsy for the receiver, involving
at least one additional step. What is done now is very satisfactory.
Why change it?

Clear skies,
Bruce Gerhard <bruceg at TheWorld.com>


On Sat, 10 Jun 2006, Bernie Volz (volz) wrote:

> Sorry folks. That was an Outlook name completion mistake on my part ...
>
> But, since it did get posted to the list, if anyone has a strong
> objection to our sending a link to the monthly newsletter rather than an
> attachment, please provide that feedback (& why).
>
> If you do like that idea or don't really care either way, PLEASE DO NOT
> RESPOND.
>
> - Bernie
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: atmob-discuss-bounces at atmob.org
>> [mailto:atmob-discuss-bounces at atmob.org] On Behalf Of Bernie
>> Volz (volz)
>> Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2006 7:45 PM
>> To: atmob-discuss at atmob.org; noatak at aol.com
>> Subject: [ATMoB-discuss] Emailing Monthly Newsletter
>>
>> Al & Mike:
>>
>> We can set up Al so he can post the monthly newsletter directly on the
>> web.
>>
>> And, instead of sending the newsletter as an attachment, we
>> should just
>> send the link to the web page.
>>
>> For example, http://www.atmob.org/newsletters/200606.pdf. People can
>> always save the document locally if they want to.
>>
>> Other than the inability to quickly and easily post it to the
>> web site,
>> is there any other reason we sent it as an attachment?
>>
>> - Bernie
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