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Kyosho Regular Location: Wollongong Registered: November 2004	Re: toymods in hot4s Sat, 22 January 2005 05:13 thechuckster wrote on Fri, 21 January 2005 20:57 IronWanker wrote on Fri, 21 January 2005 13:35 Kyosho wrote on Wed, 19 January 2005 21:42 Toymods should start up a cheap paper magazine to sell... <snip> What about a monthly/bi monthly email magazine, done in PDF format and sent to anyone who subscribes? that way it could be in colour, there are no printing costs and no mailing costs. there are heaps of costs (dollar wise and time) associated with doing this: -you still have to all the layout, source the scans, write the articles etc -you need decent software (quark/indesign/photoshop/acrobat) to do this well -you run up an enourmous bandwidth bill sending hi-res PDFs -you piss of broadband users by filling mailboxes with extremely large email attachments -you piss off dailup users by forcing them to download huge files or to make thefile small enough to take a reasonable time to download you compress and downsample the crap out of the images so they're next-to-useless -you have to maintain a large repository of PDF files online at my work (a gov't department) we've settled on PDFs limited to 250K and converting newsletters to a combined email with story summaries and links to a part of the web site with more text and pictures. im my experience (and i've been doing this since '92), there is no 'cheap' magazine or newsletter solution towe_001: most decent and printable recycled paper is imported and/or expensive. And most australian recycled paper is for carboard boxes and toilet paper. If you want 'green' paper, go for plantation+recycled, non-chlorine bleached, oz-made, coated paper. I do the Toyota Car Club Qld newsletter and it's lots of work (from grand ideas, writing, searching, thru to organsing copying), i'd expect that the toymod's club newsletter (if it has one?) is a simialr struggle to get out each month. I'm sure that the toymods club would appreciate help and contributions I have to agree on every account that the PDF file is bad... My local car club wants to try this, I am hugely opposed... My main reason is bandwidth taking up and download times since MOST members are on dial up... It takes a fair bit of time, and effort to pull a mag togethor properly... Our car club one takes around 19hours to put togethor about 10 pages, and even then, it's no where near top level... Getting pictures looking proper does take a fair bit... It wouldn't be too bad though if a website was started for a "Magazine" Say like $10 a year from each subscriber to view the website mag, log in credentials needed (Might be a hassle to set up, I know it is tricky) but then tehre is still the issue of someones time... [Report message to a moderator]

	Subject	Poster	Date
	toymods in hot4s	bigg willie style	Wed, 19 January 2005 04:07
	Re: toymods in hot4s	THE WITZL	Wed, 19 January 2005 06:27
	Re: toymods in hot4s	bigg willie style	Wed, 19 January 2005 06:41
	Re: toymods in hot4s	Lucid	Wed, 19 January 2005 07:04
	Re: toymods in hot4s	bigg willie style	Wed, 19 January 2005 07:28
	Re: toymods in hot4s	Lucid	Wed, 19 January 2005 07:33
	Re: toymods in hot4s	bigg willie style	Wed, 19 January 2005 07:36
	Re: toymods in hot4s	Lucid	Wed, 19 January 2005 07:38
	Re: toymods in hot4s	bigg willie style	Wed, 19 January 2005 07:44
	Re: toymods in hot4s	djcougar	Wed, 19 January 2005 07:47
	Re: toymods in hot4s	bigg willie style	Wed, 19 January 2005 08:10
	Re: toymods in hot4s	DiZ_	Wed, 19 January 2005 09:04
	Re: toymods in hot4s	rob_RA40	Wed, 19 January 2005 09:21
	Re: toymods in hot4s	Kyosho	Wed, 19 January 2005 10:23
	Re: toymods in hot4s	AE86slut	Tue, 25 January 2005 05:47
	Re: toymods in hot4s	Youngy	Tue, 25 January 2005 14:54
	Re: toymods in hot4s	monkeymajik	Wed, 19 January 2005 09:22
	Re: toymods in hot4s	dizzy	Wed, 19 January 2005 14:19
	Re: toymods in hot4s	Classique71	Wed, 19 January 2005 21:13
	Re: toymods in hot4s	puzzle man	Thu, 20 January 2005 03:54
	Re: toymods in hot4s	davedrifts	Wed, 19 January 2005 09:26
	Re: toymods in hot4s	Alchemist	Wed, 19 January 2005 09:28
	Re: toymods in hot4s	Cool1	Wed, 19 January 2005 09:28
	Re: toymods in hot4s	Joshstix	Wed, 19 January 2005 09:32
	Re: toymods in hot4s	mikey93	Wed, 19 January 2005 09:39
	Re: toymods in hot4s	THE WITZL	Wed, 19 January 2005 09:37
	Re: toymods in hot4s	davedrifts	Wed, 19 January 2005 10:29
	Re: toymods in hot4s	Kyosho	Wed, 19 January 2005 10:42
	Re: toymods in hot4s	Classique71	Wed, 19 January 2005 10:57
	Re: toymods in hot4s	towe_001	Wed, 19 January 2005 14:32
	Re: toymods in hot4s	IronWanker	Fri, 21 January 2005 03:35
	Re: toymods in hot4s	thechuckster	Fri, 21 January 2005 09:57
	Re: toymods in hot4s	Classique71	Fri, 21 January 2005 11:58
	Re: toymods in hot4s	Kyosho	Sat, 22 January 2005 05:13
	Re: toymods in hot4s	towe_001	Sat, 22 January 2005 12:21
	Re: toymods in hot4s	thechuckster	Fri, 28 January 2005 03:13
	Re: toymods in hot4s	BlackSupra	Wed, 19 January 2005 11:09
	Re: toymods in hot4s	Classique71	Wed, 19 January 2005 11:38
	Re: toymods in hot4s	draven	Wed, 19 January 2005 23:03
	Re: toymods in hot4s	BlackSupra	Thu, 20 January 2005 07:19
	Re: toymods in hot4s	bigg willie style	Thu, 20 January 2005 05:37
	Re: toymods in hot4s	THE WITZL	Thu, 20 January 2005 07:15
	Re: toymods in hot4s	Classique71	Thu, 20 January 2005 07:19
	Re: toymods in hot4s	puzzle man	Fri, 21 January 2005 03:08
	Re: toymods in hot4s	THE WITZL	Fri, 21 January 2005 04:11
	Re: toymods in hot4s	BlackSupra	Fri, 21 January 2005 08:36
	Re: toymods in hot4s	gold28	Fri, 28 January 2005 02:36

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