Re: *** ADMIN: MIDRANGE-L Archives now ON-LINE!

David,

The last time I checked, blank writeable CD's retailed for about $1.50 each in 
10
packs.  I'm sure that if you got a 10% request from this list you would be 
buying
100 packs and saving a little.  Throw in $400 for a CD burner and 
labor/duplication
service costs I'm not sure what the break-even point would be, but it's not too
hard to get $20-$40/year through the budget committee for a quarterly
subscription.  That is if $5-$10 each would cover your costs.  At that price 
just
about anyone can justify it.

Just another thought ... Allow subscribers to burn a copy for a coworker 
(provided
copyright remains intact, no profiting, etc.) or even as promotional giveaways.
Sort of the Linux philosophy of dissemination.

I'm on a roll now ... fill the CD with trialware and get THEM to pay a scheckle 
per
copy for expanding their market.  Sorry, the capitalist came out in me for a 
moment
;-)

Bottom line, a CD is a great idea, and if I can burn my own copy for work and 
leave
the original at home, the better.

I would like to second another comment I read about this, if a thread starts one
month and lapses over to another, it's awkward to read.  What would it take to 
have
all entries to a thread contained within the month of origin?  Maybe the whole
point will become moot with a searchable index.

Another thought, who cares about the date of post, just have a thread searchable
index where you pick a time frame (3 years?) and "single level store" the whole
archive?  It appears that certain topics rear their ugly heads once or twice a 
year
anyway.

It may be of benefit, if in your monthly guidelines (for those that read them), 
to
include a simple primer on "subject" writing.  Like: "CA/400 to HP print over IP
via Jetdirect" so someone could search "print and IP and Jetdirect".  After all,
this is a logical minded group that knows how to organize information .. aren't
we?  Make "subject" the META search keywords .. or whatever.

My 2 phennings,
James W. Kilgore
email@James-W-Kilgore.com

P.S.  Now that you are a married man, maybe someday a family man, you can defer
income to your children for performing the duplication services and save some 
taxes
.... but that's a topic for a future date ;-)




David Gibbs wrote:

> For those times you wanted to look something up and didn't have a net
> connection.
>
> david
>
> > Not to show my ignorance..... Why would you need a CD if the same archive 
>was
> > available online?
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