On Thursday, 15 Feb 1996, Andrew Mace wrote:
> Well, I'll show my age here, confessing that over the past 20 years with
> various clubs I've gone from manual typewriters and mimeo or ditto stencils,
> to electronic mimeo stencil cutters, past a brief sojourn with a tabletop
> offset printer (paper plates made free thanks to an acquaintance) and into
> various forms of WordPerfect for camera-ready copied at the local copy
> center.
This may be heresy on a computer-based list about newsletters. I don't
do anything fancy at all. I expect my newsletter to judged strictly on
the use of the English language. I don't do any fancy layout. I do my
word processing in MacWrite Pro and my event results in Excel. No
tricks, no graphics. To subvert the Marshall McLuhan quote "The message is
the message". If you want a massage from the medium, go someplace else.
Phil Ethier
THE RIGHT LINE
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