Subj : Re: dancing was: peeves To : NANCY BACKUS From : Daryl Stout Date : Mon Feb 17 2020 17:33:00 Nancy, NB> DS> There was an article in the ham radio magazine I read, noting that NB> DS> "the old timers need to embrace the new technologies". The 7 last NB> DS> words of a church, hobby club, etc. are "We never did it that way NB> DS> before". NB>And that is the other side of the decline... Sad, but true. Yet, so many feel like the changes are being forced on them. But, you can't live in the past. In one of my other hobbies (square dancing), there are some folks who don't have, can't get, or don't want, a computer or internet access. When I started the hobby 35 years ago, there were over 1200 print subscribers. When I became Circulation Chairman (actually, I volunteered ) 12 years ago, that had plunged to 450, but 10 percent of those were expired. At the start of the Fall Festival Dance, we had plunged to 24. So, I (and the other officers) made a big plea, saying that "if we don't get subscriptions or ads, the print edition will go away". We changed the format to black and white only, printed on maybe 7 pieces of paper, double sided, folded in half, and we pay the first class postage. It has saved the organization considerable money. They can list fliers for special dances in the e-Edition and on the website for free, but have to pay to have something in the print edition. We may soon reduce the cost of those, since it doesn't cost as much as before with the postage and printing. Yet, I'll bet there'll be some cheapskates who'll still say "that's too expensive". Robert Heinlein was right when he said TANSTAFFL -- but few folks will admit to it. Right now, we have 58 print subscriptions...with a large majority expiring in February and November...and maybe a half dozen in May and August (the months will fill back in, as folks renew or sign up). Several had renewed only because we went back to monthly...but if funds start drying up, we'll go back to quarterly, or eliminate the print version entirely. Data wise, many clinics require you to enter data on an iPad, but I still bring in an 11 page med list. I tell them "you'll rarely find a medical history that thorough"...and they have to admit that I'm right. My late wife got me started on that. She had each section in a different color, but just "black and white" is good enough for me. NB>Was that the FTN network you were going to take over as coordinator...? Well, I reconnected with DixieNet, and I'm still trying to find out about GatorNet. NB>Today's towns are generally patrolled by the county Sheriff office... If they're lucky, they have at least one stoplight. But, like on the episode of "I Dream Of Jeannie" the speed limit was in microscopic small print at the bottom of the sign. :P NB>For those that do go that way, maybe... In the meantime, there still is NB>the older technology, still valid, for instance the landline telephone NB>for communications... ;) True. I saw a cartoon with a rotary phone, and two small cellphones walking into the room, and they say "Grandma!!" NB>More of that wicked sense of humor, and different frame of context.... And, there's too little to laugh at in the world, nowadays. Daryl * OLX 1.53 * A lawyer is someone who calls a 200 page document a brief --- SBBSecho 3.10-Win32 * Origin: The Thunderbolt BBS - tbolt.synchro.net (454:1/33) .