Newsletter

[vem@email.byu.edu]

We could poll us CAUT folks to see if there is interest in getting a newsletter 
in the mail...
vince

> Hello folks,
> 
> Ever since I was editing the newsletter (two issues, one in '96 and one in
> '97) I have wondered if a newsletter was really an asset to us in today's
> E-based world. All of the information is either available already , or could
> very easily be made available via E-mail or the CAUT website. It is much
> cheaper to deliver it that way (it's free actually) and it takes much less
> volunteer effort to do it. Information can also be kept much more current.
> 
> I think we should consider dropping the paper Newsletter and concentrate our
> efforts elsewhere. A newsletter mailed out once every year or two is just
> not going to be effective at anything. I would guess that virtually all full
> time CAUTs either have access to the internet in their shops or can easily
> gain access thru a computer lab nearby. Contract and part time CAUTs very
> likely have access at homes or their shops. If people want a hard copy of
> something we deliver to them on the web they can print it out. Others,
> without access to the internet, could either ask a friend to print it out,
> or perhaps the Home Office could do that and mail it to the limited number
> of techs that would be involved.
> 
> An occasional E-mail to a general music department E-mail list (like NASM or
> something?) could be sent notifying piano faculty, piano techs, and
> administrators about our existence and web URL. Perhaps we should consider
> doing that after the Guidelines document and formula are ready? We could
> even have an online tech calculator based on the revised formula.
> 
> Interest in the Newsletter was waning while I was editor. No one was
> interested in publishing articles or sending me anything else to be
> published. I bet that hasn't changed any, and, of course, more of us have
> access to the internet every day.
> 
> I find it hard to justify the time and money (dues money) that it costs to
> support a mailed out Newsletter.
> 
> Scott