[Coco] Proposal Musing: A retro newsletter “experience”...

[Bill Loguidice]

I like the idea in principle, but moving that much paper around sounds like
an expensive nightmare. I also think after several months those on the
receiving end would start to regret having that many stacks of paper to
store (and as someone who is in the process of liquidating most of my
physical collection, I know I'm not keen on more physical items). I think a
much more practical, more 21st century concept, would be to keep the core
idea, but instead do it as monthly PDF compilations. These could still be
(digital) archive worthy, and, if someone were so moved, they could print
it out on their own. While you miss out on the relative nostalgia of it
being run off on a photocopier (or even lower tech) and mailed out, almost
everything else about the idea would be intact.

-Bill

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On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 10:02 AM, Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:

> I recently ran across a CoCo newsletter from 1983, and that me think about
> how many local newsletters there used to be for the CoCo.
>
> I think back and wish I had been able to subscribe to more of them.
>
> Many are archived and scanned. Many are gone forever.
>
> This makes me wonder if there has ever been a retro subscription service.
> Imagine if you could pay some fee, and then each month you get a bundle of
> photocopied newsletters that represent some point in time.
>
> Just for fun... Real, physical copies, just like the old days. When you
> started, you begin with the earliest month available, and all the available
> newsletters from that month. Time travel!
>
> There are many obstacles to this. Copyright, of course, and low quality
> scans. And the labor effort (just organizing everything by month/year would
> be a good start.) Heck, there’s probably even a way to automate it via a
> Service that will print and mail stuff ;-)
>
> I wondered if I was the only one that would love to have this.
>
> Thoughts?
>
>                 — Allen
>