No PERMANENT Email Newsletter?

[klaks]

You know, I was wondering because I'm in the process of setting up a newsletter for my recently published book, how come PERMANENT doesn't have a newsletter. I don't think that there's a dearth of writers here, or, for that matter, in the space advocacy movement or in the space industry world wide. I have a few old articles that I've written in this regard, mainly pertaining to SPS, China's space program, and some odds and ends on Peak Oil in relationship to space. Would this be something that the folks on the board consider as worthwhile? In other words, would this be worth your time to read if it arrives in your inbox.

[Mark Prado]

I've been thinking about this since reading your message yesterday. I would suggest these mailing list items:

1. News in the world which is related to PERMANENT. There are many people who just don't have the time to surf every day and depend on others to forward interesting news and other new information to them. Indeed, some organizations assign someone to the role of constantly monitoring a list of digital and printed news channels and other information sources, then forwarding what is of interest to various analysts, managers, and so on up to CEO. These days, you just forward the URL and a brief description.

I think this mailing list would get a large number of subscribers.

2. What's new on the PERMANENT website. This is not news, these are updates. After someone has browsed thru the PERMANENT website, they don't want to go back sifting thru all the old just trying to find what may be new.

It is basically a list of additions and revisions to the PERMANENT website.

This would encompass everything from new links to existing websites of interest which we discover (not news to everybody, but news to us), commentary, research papers reviewed and added to our database, and any substantial inclusion of text content which we think may be of significant interest to a good percentage of our subscribers.

I don't think item #2 should be too long. We can give links to the pages which have been updated and a synopsis of the content added.

Some people may subscribe to #1, others may subscribe to both. Or maybe we just merge both into the same newsletter.

- Mark

[Sam Fraser]

Benny Peiser's CCNet is quite a good one and relevant to PERMANENT:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCNet_(network)
http://www.staff.livjm.ac.uk/spsbpeis/CCNet-homepage.htm

Maybe this can be a template. Of course, we don't want just to be a clone of someone's work.