How to Get Newsletters
Updated 24-Jan-2012 ==== Copyright (c) 2012 Corvairs of New Mexico
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OTHER NEWSLETTER INFORMATION
Get newsletters via mail, or via the Internet?
Requests to discontinue mailing our newsletter
The newsletter CD project -- Version 1
The newsletter CD project -- Version 2
The newsletter CD project -- Version 3
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1. NEWSLETTERS BY MAIL
We mail printed copies of the newsletter to:
* Current dues-paid-up CNM members
* Several CORSA chapters on an "exchange" basis
* Several CORSA-affiliated people on a "courtesy" basis
* Local "prospective" new members per Membership Chairperson
In December 1974 Mark Morgan mailed our first newsletter to members.
It was a "Christmas Holiday" issue dated January 1975.
When our constitution was ratified, it specified that "a monthly newsletter
shall be published as approved by the Board of Directors".
Many CORSA chapters exchanged newsletters. We soon had a list of about 20
"exchange" chapters and we sent them a copy of our newsletter every month.
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.
During the 2000s many clubs quit printing paper newsletters, instead distributing
them electronically via e-mail. Other clubs printed their newsletters in color
and continued to mail them via the Postal Service.
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 did not like the idea, for several reasons:
1. Our Constitution requires that we provide a monthly newsletter. So far,
we have interpreted this to mean, a mailed paper newsletter.
2. Some of our members do not have suitable internet access, or
Some may not want to read an e-mailed newsletter on a computer screen, or
Some may not want to use up their own printer paper and ink.
3. My web site does not belong to the Club. It belongs to me as a retired
member of the University of New Mexico. 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, then I notify our Club
members and certain 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 specifically 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 us know and we may add you
to our mailing list. (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 modify 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.
Here are some of the features of my web page:
* A selection of 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
* A few PDF versions of newsletters from certain other clubs
* Links to CORSA's web site and to the New Mexico Car Council web site
Comments? Bring them to a meeting - or e-mail me: ( jimp @ unm.edu )
Feedback that someone actually uses the web page is always helpful.
Thank you -- Jim
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2. REQUESTS TO DISCONTINUE MAILING OUR NEWSLETTER - 2009-Oct-06
Members: if we don't send you a newsletter, it saves the club postage.
All members should get the newsletter every month! So, don't ask us to
discontinue unless you plan to download the newsletter from the web site.
We already DISCONTINUED mailing paper newsletters to:
No mail: Jim & Heula Pittman CNM Albuquerque jimp @ unm.edu
No mail: Mark Domzalski CNM Placitas, NM mdomzalski @ aol.com
No mail: Del Patten CNM Virginia vairbear @ msn.com
No mail: Mark Morgan CNM Illinois @
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: 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: Greg Gorski NEW JERSEY ASSN gragmgorski @ comcast.net
No Mail: Bob Marlow NEW JERSEY ASSN vairtec @ optonline.com
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
2011-Jan-03 Curtis Chimp CNM Silver City, NM chshimp @ q.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 CLBiddle @ comcast.net
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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.
Back issues contain member lists, articles, stories, photographs, tech 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 put 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 free 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 could
have a graphic logo 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. (Maybe on
our CD we could at least group and index all our club's tech tips.)
To date that is all the feedback I have received. 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 bother to get an update?
These members received the first version of the CNM Newsletter CD:
Nr. NAME PAID? AMOUNT INCOME TO CLUB
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01 Art Gold = PAID $10.00 $ 10.00
02 Pat Hall = PAID $10.00 $ 20.00
03 Cary Hubbard = $ 20.00
04 David Huntoon = PAID $10.00 $ 30.00
05 Geoff Johnson = $ 30.00
06 Robert McBreen = PAID $10.00 $ 40.00
07 Joel Nash = PAID $10.00 $ 50.00
08 Roger Pape = PAID $10.00 $ 60.00
09 Bill Reider = PAID $10.00 $ 70.00
10 Ollie Scheflow = PAID $10.00 $ 80.00
11 Tarmo Sutt = PAID $10.00 $ 90.00
12 Ray Trujillo = PAID $10.00 $ 100.00
13 Charles Vertrees = PAID $10.00 $ 110.00
14 John Wiker = PAID $10.00 $ 120.00
15 Hurley Wilvert = PAID $10.00 $ 130.00
16 Sylvan Zuercher = PAID $10.00 $ 140.00
17 Robert Gold = PAID $10.00 $ 150.00
18 Wendell Walker = PAID $10.00 $ 160.00
19 Kim Patten = PAID $10.00 $ 170.00
20 Mark Domzalski = $ 170.00
21 Richard Finch = $ 170.00
22 Steve Gongora = PAID $10.00 $ 180.00
23 Larry Hickerson = PAID $10.00 $ 190.00
24 Jerry Goffe = PAID $10.00 $ 200.00
25 LeRoy Rogers = PAID $10.00 $ 210.00
26 Larry Blair = PAID $10.00 $ 220.00
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3. THE CNM NEWSLETTER CD PROJECT -- VERSION 2
Version 2 of the Newsletter CD was completed in January 2011. It had more
newsletter back issues, an improved format, and a printed color logo/title.
Price was set at $15.00 at a CNM meeting or $20.00 mailed to a USA address.
Make your check payable to: "CORVAIRS OF NEW MEXICO"
Send your order to:
Corvair Newsletter CD
c/o Jim Pittman
1112 Westerfeld Dr NE
Albuquerque, NM 87112
Allow 2 weeks for delivery by the U.S. Postal Service.
Call: 505-275-2195 -or- e-mail: jimp @ unm.edu
If you feel that the Newsletter CD project is worthwhile, you can contribute
by reporting any problems, or by making suggestions for improvements. Space
is limited to 700 megabytes of data unless I go to a DVD format, so large
additions are probably not feasible.
All payments go to the CNM treasury. -- Thanks -- Jim
These individuals received Version 2.1 of the CNM Newsletter CD:
Nr. NAME PAID? AMOUNT DATE INCOME TO CLUB
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01 Pat & Vickie Hall = PAID $15.00 05-Jan-2011 $ 235.00
02 Tarmo Sutt = PAID $15.00 05-Jan-2011 $ 250.00
03 Charles Vertrees = PAID $15.00 05-Jan-2011 $ 265.00
04 Mike & Brenda Stickler = PAID $15.00 05-Jan-2011 $ 280.00
05 Hurley Wilvert = PAID $15.00 05-Jan-2011 $ 295.00
06 Joel Nash = .... 05-Jan-2011 $ 295.00
07 David Huntoon = PAID $15.00 19-Jan-2011 $ 310.00
08 Steve Goodman (RMC) = .... 24-Jan-2011 $ 310.00
09 Bob Philips = PAID $15.00 09-Feb-2011 $ 325.00
10 Sherry Gray / Ruth = .... 25-Feb-2011 $ 325.00
11 Raymond Dwenger = PAID $20.00 14-Mar-2011 $ 345.00
12 Lube Lubert = PAID $15.00 06-Apr-2011 $ 360.00
13 Wesley Heiss = PAID $15.00 06-Apr-2011 $ 375.00
14 Ev Hansen = PAID $20.00 13-Jan-2011 $ 395.00
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4. THE CNM NEWSLETTER CD PROJECT -- VERSION 3
Version 3 of the Newsletter CD has been prepared. A supply of discs will not
be produced in advance. If or when I get a request for the Version 3 CD, I
will make a new disc with the latest newsletter, in PDF and TEXT format, and
older newsletters going back as far as will fit within the 700 megabytes of
a standard CD. The cost will probably be the same as before ($15.00 at a CNM
meeting or $20.00 mailed to a USA address) but may have to be increased if
production costs increase significantly. All proceeds from CD sales will go
to the club treasury.
These individuals have received Version 3 of the CNM Newsletter CD:
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