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Hi, Beryl!
The San Diego Foundation posts their monthly newsletter in PDF format on
their web site and alerts all on their mailing list when the new issue has
been posted. The alert lists the key topics and links to the PDF file. That
way the initial mailing is a very small file. Folks who want a hard copy
can easily print it out and those who are trying to save trees can just
read it on the screen. I've always been impressed with how well their
system works, and the alerts haven't yet been blocked by my spam blocker.
Would that work for you?
Diane

Diane A. Baxter, Ph.D.
Director of Development
Quail Botanical Gardens
P.O. Box 230005
Encinitas, CA  92023-0005

(760) 436-3036 ext. 216
fax: (760) 632-0917


At 12:04 AM 2/10/04 -0500, you wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>We are thinking about migrating our calendar mailing to an email
>format.  Right now it gets mailed out every two months and costs a
>fortune.  Does anybody out there have any experience with this?  What
>kinds of issues do you have to look out for?  Do people resist?
>We've been told that PDFs are nice but some ISPs don't accept them.
>HTML is nice because you can have images and text, but virusestend to
>attach to them, and some folks just plain dislike the format.  Links
>off our website are ok because the info is already there, but...

Suggestions?

Thanks,
Beryl
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Beryl Rosenthal, Ph.D.
Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs
MIT Museum
265 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA  02139
Tel: 617-452-2111
Fax: 617-253-8994
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