I was the club secretary in 1995, and responsible for production of the newsletter then. In 1995 I proposed an e-mail format for the newsletter. Snail-mail postage was (then) costing the sender (MHBA) hundreds of dollars a year. E-mail was 'free' to MHBA (costs paid by recipient). E-mail was not an option for many of our members then. Surprisingly, it was available to a large minority. Now e-mail service is as close to 'global' as telephone service was twenty years ago. The argument for producing MHBA newsletters as e-mail is strong. The cost of the newsletter per postage is significant, not to mention the cost of the hard copy itself, plus the machinery necessary to produce it. On the other hand, twelve stamps are cheaper than twelve months of Internet service. Members should have that choice. Charge them what they need, I say. A two-tiered subscription level? I don't know. I'm not even current in my membership. It's not my place to judge. But I do have some historical memory of the issue, so I offer what I can. John Reese On Tue, 2003-04-29 at 11:21, sweiland(a)usfamily.net wrote: