-------------- Original message from Ray Jones <hurst300@xxxxxxxxxxx>: -------------- > To all the complainers: > Maybe I can shed some light on this. > I've been a member of this fine club for over 30 years. For most of > those 30 years, both the 300 Club News and the NewsFlite were edited > by our beloved Eleanor. For the last 4 years or so, Andy Mikonis has > done a fine job, under great pressure. Most of the pressure comes from > a big lack of cooperation from the members, no contributions! Andy > literly begs for input every issue and has to dig up older, rerun > stories sometimes to fill the Club News issue. Sad! We have 1000 > members and he can't get any to send in their story! snip > Now to the part that makes me mad. Some of the complainers I don't > think I've seen on the list before. But I'd bet that damn near all of > them (not to mention most ALL of you) have never sent in a story about > their car and how it came to be in their care. And that's after many > requests. If you have a "G" and Andy is asking for "D" stories, sit > down and tell us about your "G", were (and who) it came from, what > you've done and how and so on. Send it in, tonight! Andy can hold it > until he needs it. snip > Ray in Mena As a person who once served as an editor for a publication with a circulation a tad under 10,000 I can attest to the lack of submissions by the readership. IT WAS very SPARCE. I had a stockpile of FILLER material, fortunately what I dredged up to use as readable content were not articles on a short recycle time. I had to fill 16 pages of newsprint sized pages each issue. One thing I did was to stress that if those responsible for a portion of the content did not submit material, I WAS NOT GOING to write it for them. BUT should I receive something that needed a total rewrite I would do it. At least the person made an effort. It took several BLANK spaces with a small box in it "Space left blank due to no submission on time." to wake up the person that was supposed to fill that spot. The Editors job should be to take submitted material, decide if it's in readable form, try and make it so if it is not, and decide the look and feel for each issue as it is prepared. Is this not the case???? IF there is space to fill and someone has to generate the content then its laszi-faire, you get what pops up on the moment. -- Paul Holmgren 2 57 300-C's in Indy Hoosier Corps #L6 A generation which ignores history has no past -- and no future. - RobertA. Heinlein [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ To send a message to this group, send an email to: Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For list server instructions, go to http://www.chrysler300club.com/yahoolist/inst.htm For archives go to http://www.forwardlook.net/300-archive/Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Chrysler300/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Chrysler300/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:Chrysler300-digest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailto:Chrysler300-fullfeatured@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: Chrysler300-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/