Date   : Wed, 23 May 2001 00:45:49 +0200
From   : Isabel Cisternas & Robert Schmidt <rschmidt@...>
Subject: Re: EUG - Electron User Group

Hi Kevin,

I appreciate the effort you're making for the survival of the EUG, and I
wish EUG all the best!

However, don't we have at our hands something that is a bit handier,
more accessible, cheaper, more reliable, faster, larger, etc, than
floppies containing 500 KB or less, sent through postage, 6 times a
year? </rethoric>

I'm speaking as a person who has never seen an EUG mag, and I don't own
an Acorn micro anymore (though I've browsed quite a few 8BS mags in
BeebEm), but it might be beneficial for EUG to develop into a full blown
web site instead.  It's hard to compete with the WWW and mailing lists,
especially for snail-mail floppies no matter how cheap. Granted, a free
web site will never have the commitment of paying subscribers, but it's
a freedom that everybody is getting used to - even die-hard 8-bit Acorn
fans.

I'd love to see a site with regular, user-contributed, magazine-like
updates and features.  The trend on the available sites is of course to
post the news when you get them.  Also, few sites (any?) sport hints and
tips, odds and ends, utilities, and other proofs of an actual thriving
community of 8-bit users (as opposed to game-playing emulator users...
:-).  Which again could indicate that they're getting a bit, well...
old.  Most things that can be done, have been done.

I don't mean to hurt anybody's feelings, but these were my thoughts.
Anybody else?  I can stand (and might deserve) some righteous flaming...
:-)


Cheers,
Robert