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Index of Subjects thanks. All good points. Wd you remember if you received a draft of this some time ago? Trying to strike a balance in promoting the graphical interface (which at the time of publication was still in its early release stages) without discounting/ignoring the text-only is always a bit problematic. ============================================================================= Sue Newhook suenew@chebucto.ns.ca Visit Chebucto Community Net in Halifax http://www.chebucto.ns.ca ============================================================================= On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Mark Rushton wrote: > Hi there (anyone out there?) > > I stopped into the Spring Garden Road library today, and whilst waiting for > a woman to get off the terminal (10 mins into _my_ time period!), I had a > perusal of the CCN brochure sitting on the table... > > It's a white, single-fold 8.5x11 sheet, with the title: > > "Join the Halifax Area Internet Community... with Your Community Net!" > > One line caught my eye, because it perhaps reinforces this image CCN has > amongst its membership that we're a text-only system (i.e., we can't > "publish" with graphics). The line in question is on page two (inside the > front leaf), under "What do you get?" section: > > "A full range of access to the Internet. Basic membership (just $20 a > year) gives you text-only access to e-mail, Web surfing, chat and > discussion groups, mailing lists -- everything but graphics." > > May I respectfully suggest the next printing of that particular brochure be > reworded to more explicitly (perhaps in the section immediately following, > which states: "With your membership, you also get space to build your own > Web site on-line.") that we are graphics-capable? > > One other minor thing: formatting of text on the back page, bottom half, > could be cleaned up for readability. > > Otherwise, a nice, concise pamphlet! > > cheers, > Mark. > > ________________________________________________________________ > Mark Rushton, Editor, Community Support & Development, Chebucto Community > Network > Mark@chebucto.ns.ca or via WWW: http://chebucto.ns.ca/~Mark/index.html > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >
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