[DeTomaso] Electronic Delivery of newsletters / Profiles

Fri Nov 6 17:10:38 EST 2015

Used to be that for decades, post office mailings  to foreign destinations cost more than the dues POCA charged by quite a margin. But there were less than 25 members residing outside the U,S, so POCA quietly absorbed the excess. Now, the number of members outside the U.S. has doubled; we currently mail to 13 countries. And for various reasons, the Board was enmeshed in long discussions of other issues for most of this year, so a dues reduction was not done, although I proposed it. A poor excuse but it's all I got.....

Now that the Election is half over and seemed to work well, and my experiment of sending electronic copies of the Newsletter to a limited number of members also worked (once I upgraded my ISP at my own expense & corrected a dozen bad e-mail addresses), the mostly-new 2016 Board can begin to address the dues question, as well as electronic Club mailings to all who'd prefer them wherever they live. A few in the U.S have already asked for this convenience and I accommodate them.

And if you'd like to officially volunteer for a position in POCA, note there is nothing in our Bylaws to prevent an overseas POCA member being elected (or appointed) as a Board member, just as a POCA Chapter formed outside the U.S is also not forbidden (the name 'Pantera Owners Club of America' notwithstanding, and we also don't require you to be a current Pantera owner). In the past, we had one Board member in the military who was stationed in S. Korea for a year, and although contact was not easy, he was able to perform his duties. The only real inconvenience seems to be the 6-9 hour time-zone change to our current far-flung membership, since POCA holds its monthly Board meetings by telecon. 

Knowing that, i just wonder why foreign members pay more membership fees, than US members?

-----Original Message-----
From: R.J <willibillie at live.de>
To: detomaso <detomaso at poca.com>
Sent: Fri, Nov 6, 2015 12:19 pm
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Electronic Delivery of newsletters / Profiles

Knowing that, i just wonder, why foreign members pay more membership
   fees,
than US members?

   Am 06.11.2015 um 20:43 schrieb fastgrandma via
DeTomaso:

   Rob, the seed was planted long ago!  Jack has been sending the

Newsletters electronically to all the foreign members - other than a
   couple
who do NOT use computers for well over a year. This has save
   POCA a good
amount of money. It is being worked on to do all members
   who would prefer
this method; the major problem is making sure all the
   email addresses are
correct which takes time. This is also complicated
   by those who's server
will not accept a large mailing.

   Personally I'd never accept an electronic
Profiles; those really need
   to be read in hand. Proofing it online has
definitely shown me that I
   was correct on that issue. :)

   Judy

-----Original Message-----
   From: Rob Dumoulin [1]<rob at dumoulins.net>
   To:
Pantera - DeTomaso Mail List [2]<DeTomaso at poca.com>
   Sent: Fri, Nov 6, 2015
6:41 am
   Subject: [DeTomaso] Electronic Delivery of newsletters /
Profiles
My POCA publication arrived yesterday.A  Nice work.A  Has any

discussion
been had yet about distributing these electronically?A  I
   can
see a cost
savings but I can also see it being easier to pirate
   (forwarding
to
non-paying enthusiasts).A  It is nice to have the hard
   copies, but
could
they be published online in a secured area on the
   POCA server that
could be
indexed?A  Printing could be done at the
   choice of the member.

How much
does it cost to print/send each distribution?
   How much time does
somebody
have to spend to make distribution happen?
   Just planting a
seed.A

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   Used to be that for decades, post office mailings to foreign
   destinations cost more than the dues POCA charged by quite a margin.
   But there were less than 25 members residing outside the U,S, so POCA
   quietly absorbed the excess. Now, the number of members outside the
   U.S. has doubled; we currently mail to 13 countries. And for various
   reasons, the Board was enmeshed in long discussions of other issues for
   most of this year, so a dues reduction was not done, although I
   proposed it. A poor excuse but it's all I got.....
   Now that the Election is half over and seemed to work well, and my
   experiment of sending electronic copies of the Newsletter to a limited
   number of members also worked (once I upgraded my ISP at my own expense
   & corrected a dozen bad e-mail addresses), the mostly-new 2016 Board
   can begin to address the dues question, as well as electronic Club
   mailings to all who'd prefer them wherever they live. A few in the U.S
   have already asked for this convenience and I accommodate them.
   And if you'd like to officially volunteer for a position in POCA, note
   there is nothing in our Bylaws to prevent an overseas POCA member being
   elected (or appointed) as a Board member, just as a POCA Chapter formed
   outside the U.S is also not forbidden (the name 'Pantera Owners Club of
   America' notwithstanding, and we also don't require you to be a current
   Pantera owner). In the past, we had one Board member in the military
   who was stationed in S. Korea for a year, and although contact was not
   easy, he was able to perform his duties. The only real inconvenience
   seems to be the 6-9 hour time-zone change to our current far-flung
   membership, since POCA holds its monthly Board meetings by telecon.

Knowing that, i just wonder why foreign members pay more membership fees, than U
S members?

   -----Original Message-----
   From: R.J <willibillie at live.de>
   To: detomaso <detomaso at poca.com>
   Sent: Fri, Nov 6, 2015 12:19 pm
   Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Electronic Delivery of newsletters / Profiles
Knowing that, i just wonder, why foreign members pay more membership
   fees,
than US members?

   Am 06.11.2015 um 20:43 schrieb fastgrandma via
DeTomaso: