<VV> Email the Communique!

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I would not email the Communique --- too large, clogs in-boxes, hard to manage the email addresses. 

Heck, i don't email my chapter's newsletter -- I post it to the chapters Web site. then send everyone a reminder that its there. 

BUT HEY !!!! 

the Communique IS posted to the Corvair.org web site too! Has been for, what, a year? 

Available to CORSA members only (for now) 

Goto www.corvair.org 
click on member center 
enter you userid password <follow the instructions if you have not registered a username, need your Communique label > 

Viola -- e-Communuque 

And options to donate to CPF and CORSA online 
and renewal option, and later this year, option to register on-line for the convention 

and hopefully more to come. 

At the moment, the Communique is not printable. That may change in time (likely will change) 

The board discussed offering a e_Communique membership (dues) rate. Unfortunately, it got lost in the shuffle. I have mentioned to a few that I will try again to offer that to the membership -- AS AN OPTION. rate A for e_communique rate B for printed/mailed. 


You will excuse me, I have a paying job that demands my attention. 
I will try to get back to this volunteer (hobby) job as soon as possible. 

tim mahler 




----- Original Message ----- 
From: Thesuperscribe at cs.com 
To: virtualvairs at corvair.org 
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 8:56:48 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central 
Subject: Re: <VV> Email the Communique! 

People who complain about a $15 a year dues increase are such cheapskates 
that maybe we'd be better off without them. However, as at least one of them has 
correctly suggested, CORSA could save a bunch of money by converting the 
printed Communique -- the source of a lot of expense -- to an on-line version, 
either by posting it on the website or by emailing it as a pdf file. 

We in the Mid-Ohio Vair Force have done this with our Vair Voice newsletter 
for a year now; so has the San Diego club with its Vairmail (which I edited for 
five years and I can tell you that preparing a printed version is a LOT of 
work). The emailed Vair Voice works well, saving us maybe $15 a month in 
postage. That's not a lot of money, but we can spend that on other things. And we get 
color pics that we'd otherwise not be able to afford in a printed version. 
We'd also save printing and paper costs, but two long-time members who run a 
printing business have done this gratis, and still do for the handful of members 
who don't have email access. 

CORSA could do the same thing -- mail out a printed version of the Communique 
to members who request it, and charge them an extra fee for it. Those with 
email addresses can take it electronically and use their printers to put a 
physical version in their hands, if that's what they want (I do this with the Vair 
Voice and Vairmail). Keep the format simple so it's easy to produce and read. 

And forgo competing for the awards -- who cares, anyway? (Magazines I write 
for enter and win awards, some with my name on them, but this is done mostly to 
impress potential advertisers and massage our own egos, IMO.) 

How much would CORSA save it the Communique converted to a simple emailed 
format? Probably enough to avoid a dues increase, and maybe enough to cut the 
dues (except for those who insist on a printed version). But I'd happily pay an 
increase in dues to keep the organization going. 

--Tom Berg 
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