[DeTomaso] Electronic Delivery of newsletters / Profiles

Will Kooiman will.kooiman at gmail.com
Fri Nov 6 17:29:28 EST 2015 

It seems to me that POCA has a problem with having too much money.

Time is probably better spent trying to find ways to improve benefits.

Here¹s one.  Provide all of the Profiles and newsletters on the website
(members only), whether they are also mailed or not.

On 11/6/15, 5:10 PM, "DeTomaso on behalf of Jack DeRyke via DeTomaso"
<detomaso-bounces at poca.com on behalf of detomaso at poca.com> wrote:

>   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:
>
>   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]<[1]rob at dumoulins.net>
>   To:
>Pantera - DeTomaso Mail List [2]<[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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