- 21. Re: Newsletter material (score: 1)
- Author: Bob Lang <LANG@ISIS.MIT.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 14:48:50 -0500 (EST)
- Yeah - it must be Friday the 13th or something. Yikes! It is! Nice segway... I have about 200 or so members on our mailing list (not counting the 35 or 40 clubs and businesses that we send out 'lette
- /html/newsletters/1998-02/msg00012.html (12,139 bytes)
- 22. Re: Beaulieu (score: 1)
- Author: Bob Lang <LANG@ISIS.MIT.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 17:15:49 -0500 (EST)
- Just for yucks... I'm pretty sure that Beaulieu (sorry about the spelling) is held on the same weekend that we celebrate "Labor Day" in the 'States. It's some sort of "bankers' holiday" in the UK. F
- /html/newsletters/1998-02/msg00020.html (7,353 bytes)
- 23. Re: Newsletter Archives (score: 1)
- Author: Bob Lang <LANG@ISIS.MIT.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 16:00:54 -0500 (EST)
- I have been there and done that. I've been doing our club newsletter since early 93, and I've been the principle editor and publisher since '95. Every time I look at the pile of newsltters that I've
- /html/newsletters/1998-02/msg00031.html (8,002 bytes)
- 24. Re: Getting paid (score: 1)
- Author: Bob Lang <LANG@ISIS.MIT.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 10:30:31 -0500 (EST)
- I know of folks that get paid for editing newsletters. It's more or less a case of being in the right place at the right time. Example one: the local SCCA region has a regional newsletter. It's a mo
- /html/newsletters/1997-09/msg00007.html (9,542 bytes)
- 25. Re: OCR's (score: 1)
- Author: Bob Lang <LANG@ISIS.MIT.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 09:50:05 -0500 (EST)
- Here's my two-cents worth. If you get good clean copies, OCR's are great. They can save a lot of time. If you get crappy copies - anything from bad FAXes to articles that members submit that have all
- /html/newsletters/1997-09/msg00020.html (8,264 bytes)
- 26. Re: OCR's (score: 1)
- Author: Bob Lang <LANG@ISIS.MIT.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 12:05:28 -0500 (EST)
- Why don't you post the letter to this list? Or, even better, if you have a Web page or something like that - post the URL to this list. Strange as it may seem, many professional publications have a
- /html/newsletters/1997-09/msg00022.html (7,758 bytes)
- 27. RE: Introduction (score: 1)
- Author: Bob Lang <LANG@ISIS.MIT.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 12:45:28 -0500 (EST)
- Yes, I just had 18 pages done back-to-back, about 240 copies, price was about $180. That winds up being $.04 a page. 18 pages * 240 copies is about 4320 pages. We used to get the volume price of $.03
- /html/newsletters/1997-08/msg00002.html (7,982 bytes)
- 28. Re: Introduction (score: 1)
- Author: Bob Lang <LANG@ISIS.MIT.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 11:21:58 -0500 (EST)
- Never - ever volunteer for anything! ;-) I volunteered to help our newsletter editor about 4 years ago. I've been the newsletter editor ever since. I'm still not exactly sure what happened! Good luck
- /html/newsletters/1997-08/msg00003.html (8,235 bytes)
- 29. Re: Scanners (score: 1)
- Author: Bob Lang <LANG@ISIS.MIT.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 10:14:34 -0500 (EST)
- I have an 8-bit scanner, no color for this guy. I "bought it" in a trade worth about $200. It came with some OCR software too. It works out pretty well for what I use it for: I OCR stuff I get from m
- /html/newsletters/1996-10/msg00011.html (9,204 bytes)
- 30. Re: Scanners (score: 1)
- Author: Bob Lang <LANG@ISIS.MIT.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 14:15:20 -0500 (EST)
- Some of us still use Macs. ;-). There may be similar shareware/freeware for Mac, but I'm not aware of them. Yes, but I typically have 20 or more scanned images of which I select maybe 7 to 10 for an
- /html/newsletters/1996-10/msg00013.html (9,055 bytes)
- 31. Re: AHSDC magazine on-line (score: 1)
- Author: Bob Lang <LANG@ISIS.MIT.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 10:17:55 -0500 (EST)
- New England Triumphs put up a sample newsletter. It took so much time to convert from Pagemaker to HTML, I gave up after a month (although I'll probably do a few more over the next few months). I ch
- /html/newsletters/1996-09/msg00004.html (7,318 bytes)
- 32. Re: U.S. postage stamps (score: 1)
- Author: Bob Lang <LANG@ISIS.MIT.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 12:16:43 -0500 (EST)
- When I do "stamping", I usually buy the self-adhesive type if the mailing is less than 6 8 X 11 pages. When its bigger, I wind up getting sheets of 50 or 100 $.55's and rippin' them apart and the us
- /html/newsletters/1996-08/msg00003.html (7,904 bytes)
- 33. Re: U.S. postage stamps (score: 1)
- Author: Bob Lang <LANG@ISIS.MIT.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 13:31:38 -0500 (EST)
- You need to have a "big-ish" list for bulk to work, some folks say over 200 for it to be cost-effective. You can pull a "first class permit" for a filing fee, I think its $75 a year at your local pos
- /html/newsletters/1996-08/msg00006.html (8,273 bytes)
- 34. Various Stuff (score: 1)
- Author: Bob Lang <LANG@ISIS.MIT.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 15:20:22 -0500 (EST)
- I already know a few folks that are on this list from the british-cars mail list, but I thought I'd post some bio info and then ask a question. I'm Bob Lang, editor for the New England Triumph newsl
- /html/newsletters/1996-02/msg00008.html (9,614 bytes)
- 35. Logitech Scan Man 32 for Sale (score: 1)
- Author: Bob Lang <LANG@ISIS.MIT.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 10:50:28 -0500 (EST)
- I figured that I have a "captive" audience with this mail list... I have a Logitech Scan Man 32 for Macintosh that I am trying to sell. I'll let it go cheap, I'm asking $50. As Andy Mace indicated,
- /html/newsletters/1996-02/msg00027.html (7,407 bytes)
This search system is powered by
Namazu