How to Get Newsletters
Updated 19-Nov-2009 ==== Copyright (c) 2009 Corvairs of New Mexico
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NEWSLETTERS BY INTERNET DOWNLOAD
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OTHER NEWSLETTER INFORMATION
1. Get newsletters by mail, or via the Internet?
2. Requests to discontinue mailing our newsletter.
3. The newsletter CD project is on hold.
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1. NEWSLETTERS BY MAIL
We mail printed copies of the newsletter to:
* All current CNM members
* Several CORSA chapters on an "exchange" basis
* Certain CORSA-affiliated people on a "courtesy" basis
* Occasionally to "prospective" new members
In December 1974 Mark Morgan mailed the first newsletter to dues-paying
members. The newsletter continued to be mailed nearly every month. When
our constitution was ratified, it specified that a monthly newsletter
shall be published as approved by the Board of Directors.
By 2005 my web site was established. PDFs of the current issue were available.
The web site also included back issues in TEXT format from 1998 to the present.
At our May 2005 meeting we discussed the idea of saving money by NOT mailing the
printed newsletter to individuals who can get it by download from my web site.
I don't want to quit mailing newsletters, for several reasons:
1. Our Constitution requires that we provide a monthly newsletter.
2. My web page provides certain services to CNM members:
* News items
* A current calendar and schedule
* A text copy of this month's newsletter
* A full-color PDF version of this month's newsletter
* A collection of years of back issues of the newsletter
* A history of items such as Awards and Tri-State events
* A gallery of digital photos
* Links to CORSA's web site and to the New Mexico Car Council web site
3. Some of our members do not have suitable internet access, they may not
want to read a newsletter on a computer or they may not want to use up
printer paper and ink.
4. My web site does not belong to the Club. It could disappear at any time.
The newsletter deadline gives me time to edit the newsletter, print it and
mail it to members a few days before the next meeting. The last step of
editing is saving the newsletter as a PDF to give to our print shop.
When the PDF is done, I install it on my web page. I send a notification to
a mailing list of Club members, CORSA officers, and individuals from other
chapters to tell them that the new PDF is available on my web page. (If you
are not on this mailing list and you want to be, let me know.)
Usually the color PDF of the new issue of the newsletter becomes available
about a week before the next meeting -- some months it may be earlier.
I mail the paper copy of the newsletter to all paid-up CNM members unless a
member asks me not to mail it. I rarely send newsletters by e-mail.
As long as we can afford it, we will mail "exchange" newsletters to certain
other CORSA chapters and "courtesy" newsletters to certain non-CNM people.
We think a newsletter exchange with other clubs is a great idea. We'll keep
doing it so long as we believe it is good for our Club or for CORSA.
If you want to get a printed copy every month, let me know and I may add you
to our mailing list. On the other hand, if we are now sending you printed
newsletters and you don't want them, let us know and we'll stop.
My web page with its collection of back issues and its full-color PDF version
of the current newsletter is MY GIFT to our members, over and above regular
club membership benefits. It would not happen without my ability to continually
work on the newsletter and continually tweak the web page, and without the
contributions of several of our members -- for which I am grateful.
This web page has ABSOLUTELY NO GUARANTEE and could end at any moment.
Comments? Bring them to a meeting - or e-mail me: ( jimp @ unm.edu )
By the way, feedback that someone actually uses the web page would be helpful.
Thank you -- Jim
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2. REQUESTS TO DISCONTINUE MAILING OUR NEWSLETTER - 2009-Oct-06
If we discontinue mailing you a newsletter, it saves us postage.
But, we want to be sure you will get the newsletter every month!
Don't discontinue unless you plan to download the newsletter from the web site.
We already DISCONTINUED mailing paper newsletters to:
Already: Jim & Heula Pittman CNM Albuquerque jimp @ unm.edu
Already: Mark Domzalski CNM Placitas, NM mdomzalski @ aol.com
Already: Del Patten CNM Virginia vairbear @ msn.com
Already: Mark Morgan CNM Illinois rangermk @ charter.net
No mail: Ben Wofford BONNEVILLE Utah benfwofford @ att.net
No Mail: Ben Wofford BONNEVILLE Utah benfwofford @ comcast.net
No Mail: Dominique Allen HEART OF AMERICA Missouri corvair @ home-town.biz
No Mail: Carlos Rodriguez CLASSIC CORVAIRS California carlos @ rodriguezandco.com
No Mail: CENTRAL NY CENTRAL NEW YORK n2vzd @ aol.com
No Mail: CORSA CORSA mcvair @ sbcglobal.net
No Mail: CORSA ONTARIO CORSA ONTARIO njdl @ sympatico.ca
No Mail: CORVAIR UNDERGROUND CORVAIR UNDERGROUND corvairs @ pacifier.com
No Mail: Cal Clark CLARK'S CORVAIR PARTS clarks @ corvair.com
No Mail: Garrie Fox PIKES PEAK gfox80915 @ yahoo.com
No Mail: GREEN COUNTY GREEN COUNTY CORVAIR GROUP roger13 @ mindspring.com
No Mail: Ruth & Steve Goodman PIKES PEAK rearengine.steve @ worldnet.att.net
No Mail: Harry Jensen CORSA corsa @ corvair.org
No Mail: Pete Koehler CORSA Communique pkoehler01 @ atlanticbb.net
No Mail: John Koll PPCC Treasurer jkkoll @ aol.com
No Mail: Tim Mahler CORSA President flat6vair @ insightbb.com
No Mail: Mike McGowan CORSA Communique communique @ corvair.org
No Mail: Mike Moyer CORVANANTICS vairvert67 @ yahoo.com
No Mail: NEW JERSEY ASSN NEW JERSEY ASSOCIATION gragmgorski @ comcast.net
No Mail: PRAIRIE CAPITAL PRAIRIE CAPITAL CORVAIRS prairiecapital @ corvair.org
No Mail: Jack Pinard CORSA corvairjack @ verizon.net
No Mail: QUEEN CITY CORVAIR QUEEN CITY CORVAIR dickndee @ cetlink.net
No Mail: SOUTH COAST CORSA SOUTH COAST CORSA scc903 @ verizon.net
No Mail: Richard Travis PRESCOTT AREA travisr @ erau.edu
No Mail: Annette Travis PRESCOTT AREA annettetravis @ netzero.net
No Mail: VINTAGE CORSA VINTAGE CORSA ORANGE COUNTY rabjab @ cox.net
No Mail: Judy & Wayne Ward CORSA nmspyderusa @ gmail.com
No Mail: Jennifer Wiltrout PIKES PEAK mjwiltrout @ msn.com
People or chapters asking us to DISCONTINUE the mailed newsletter:
2008-Jan-27 Eric Schakel DENVAIR NEWS Denver, CO eschakel @ earthlink.net
2008-May-31 Bob Galli CNM Atascadero, CA rdgalli @ tcsn.net
2008-Jun-02 Kim Patten CNM Albuquerque pattendk @ msn.com
2008-Jun-03 Harry Spence CLASSIC CORVAIRS Grass Valley, CA hbspence @ pacbell.net
2008-Jun-16 Joyce Clements NMCCC Albuquerque oldcarnut1932 @ earthlink.net
2008-Jun-19 Red Badgett VAIRMAIL San Diego, CA redbadgett @ aol.com
2008-Jun-19 Bob Helt VEGAS VAIRS Las Vegas, NV bobhelt @ aol.com
2008-Jun-27 Dave Bailey CORVAIRS NORTHWEST Tukwila, WA dsbailey3 @ comcast.net
2008-Jul-25 Seth Emerson SILICON VALLEY San Jose, CA sethracer @ aol.com
2008-Nov-05 LeRoy Rogers CNM Albuquerque 004873 @ q.com
2009-Oct-06 David Brown CORVAIR HOUSTON Houston, TX corvair69 @ gmail.com
People or chapters asking us to CONTINUE the mailed newsletter:
2008-Jun-24 Ray Bagley BONNEVILLE CORVAIR CLUB UT satansangel145 @ yahoo.com
2008-Jul-25 Hal Rupert SILICON VALLEY Santa Clara, CA hal.rupert @ sbcglobal.net
2008-Aug-18 Charley Biddle CHICAGOLAND AIRHORN Matteson, IL 75771.44 @ compuserve.com
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3. THE CNM NEWSLETTER CD PROJECT
Mark Morgan started our club's Newsletter in January 1975. By May 2009 we had
produced 404 issues. The Newsletter serves as a record of the club's activities
over the years. Back issues contain member lists, articles, stories, photographs
and technical tips.
Several years ago I started a web page primarily devoted to the Newsletter. It
contains back issues of the Newsletter in text format, and in recent years has
made available full-color PDF files of the current Newsletter.
In 2006 I presented to the Board of Directors an idea for a "CNM Newsletter CD"
project. I thought that a computer-readable CD collection of much of the best
material from back issues of our Newsletter would be a great resource for our
members. The Board approved this project and I started putting it together.
The "Version 1.1" edition of the CNM Newsletter CD was finished and copies were
made available to our members at the January 2007 meeting. The initial price was
set at $10.00 and I recorded the names of those who obtained a copy so I could
provide updates if and when they become available.
I asked for help to continue the project. I thought that an improved version of
the CD could be provided to new members and could be sold to members of other
CORSA chapters, the way we have successfully sold the CARE & FEEDING book.
I thought some things were desirable to continue the project:
1) A "search function" that could be recorded on the CD to search for words or
phrases in both the text files and the PDF files, for Windows and Macintosh.
2) A way to print a label to go on the CD, or, a way to produce CDs with a
suitable label printed directly on the CD disk surface.
3) A better collection of photos from our members.
4) If there were sufficient demand for these CDs I would need help recording
new CDs, as well as packaging and mailing them out.
5) Suggestions for improvement to the contents or organization of the CD.
Feedback:
* One member suggested an inexpensive way to get CD copies produced that would
have a graphic printed on the front of the CD.
* Another member researched how to obtain a "search program" to include with the
CD and concluded it was not feasible to do so. However, the member suggested
ways to re-organize the text files to make it easier to find topics.
* Another member suggested that it would be useful to have a CD that included
only the many tech tips that have been in our Newsletter. My reply was that
CORSA has already published an excellent collection of tech tips. Possibly on
our CD we could at least group and index all our tech tips.
To date that is all the feedback I have received. (One member called me to say
that he could not get the text or PDFs or JPGs to show up on his E-Machine. I'm
not a Windows person and was not able to help with an E-machine.)
Is there so little feedback because I have not pushed this project enough, or is
it because no one who obtained the CD considers it valuable enough to update?
I must have seriously over-estimated the value of this CD to our members. Since
no one is offering suggestions for improvement, or even bothering to tell me
that they like or dislike the CD, I am discouraged from putting any more effort
into it. At this time the project is on hold and will probably die.
These members received the first version of the CNM Newsletter CD:
01 Art Gold = PAID
02 Pat Hall = PAID
03 Cary Hubbard = pending
04 David Huntoon = PAID
05 Geoff Johnson = pending
06 Robert McBreen = PAID
07 Joel Nash = PAID
08 Roger Pape = PAID
09 Bill Reider = PAID
10 Ollie Scheflow = PAID
11 Tarmo Sutt = PAID
12 Ray Trujillo = PAID
13 Charles Vertrees = PAID
14 John Wiker = PAID
15 Hurley Wilvert = PAID
16 Sylvan Zuercher = PAID
17 Robert Gold = PAID
18 Wendell Walker = PAID
19 Kim Patten = PAID
20 Mark Domzalski = pending
21 Richard Finch = pending
22 Steve Gongora = PAID
23 Larry Hickerson = PAID
24 Jerry Goffe = PAID
25 LeRoy Rogers = PAID
26 Larry Blair = PAID
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