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From: "LA Greenall" <>
Subject: RE: [SoG] Computers in Genealogy
Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 14:17:44 +0100
In-Reply-To: <riMZPLA9Coa7EwDy@tdrake.demon.co.uk>


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Barney Tyrwhitt-Drake [mailto:]
>
> ... The Editor of CiG has a full-time university job... If we want a
> professionally edited magazine the Society should be prepared to fund
> greater professional staff assistance in the layout, typography and
> secretarial side of the journal...

Unless volunteers sprouted forth, one for each aspect...

> ... How would subscribers to CiG feel if it was 'sent' to them as...
> a pdf file from a website... with the option of receiving a paper copy
> at cost?

I'm not a subscriber (yet), but if I may:

> 1) It would take some time to download as I don't have broadband
> Internet access.

Would it be neccessary to download each whole issue (unless making a
collection)? Surely it would be an advantage to download only a couple of
bits of interest, digest them, and later go back for more. More like
drinking from the eternal fount than any reading of a paper can be.

> Send up another candle with the cocoa Jeeves!
> --
> Barney Tyrwhitt-Drake

Certainly, Mr. Wooster Sauce, Sir!


Lawrence.

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