On Fri, 26 Mar 1999 09:37:19 -0800, Gerhard Fiedler wrote:

>
>>What does everyone else think about a weekly newsletter of this
>>nature?
>
>i think this should all be in one "official" piclist faq somewhere on the
>www, and i think mark willis is working on one (thanks, mark! :) if i got
>that wrong, i could volunteer to start taking suggestions what to put in
>there...). then posting the link every now and then would be enough.
>

I was thinking of an email news letter sent out to everyone
once a week or so.  The web site is a good idea too, but some people
only have mail access.  Even some of those with web access may pay
dearly for their bandwidth in some parts of the world.

I nice one-two page plain text new letter was what I had in mind.

The FAQ and archive URLs could be posted in the newsletter, however.

This is no new idea really. I have seen these types of newsletters
on usenet newgroups before.  I subscribe to a few other news oriented mailing
lists that send out letters once a week.  It is a nice format.  Short to
download and right there in my mail reader accessible without firing off
a bloated 50MB+ web browser!

I arbitrarily chose 1 week intervals because it is not annoyingly
frequent, but often enough to remind folks of important
information.

Dan