Roman reenactors becoming a Global Organization????

[Caius Fabius]

I have a deal of experience with a monthly newsletter about Roman re-enactments. (I have also edited/published a couple of other hobby magazines.) I suggest that the online newsgroup is much better in many ways.<br>
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Cost. The cost for printing color photographs in a magazine is still high. The postage for such a magazine is going up. The basic print run, address labels, pre-print pasteup and editing are all time consuming and the labor costs money. Voluntary newsletters suffer from failure to meet deadlines, tax accounting problems and lack of profit, even with advertisements, which you have to sell, (again, more effort).<br>
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Input. In order to have a good magazine, you have to have timely, accurate and well-written articles, and you need dozens of them! I have "files" with "filler" art, articles and photos. These require lots of effort, begging articles, shuffleing articles to fit open space, cut and paste, even on a computer takes time. The main reason many "hobby" magazines fail in the first 3 years is a lack of input from the readers, or advertisers find that their advertisements do not prove cost effective!<br>
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I suggest that the online "magazine" / interactive newsgroup is the way for people to share and keep informed, and thanks to RomanArmyTalk, we already have a find Roman e-magazine. There are several other Roman newsgroups you can also find, either at Yahoo, or various other groups that might fill your locality niche or specific time period. <br>
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<p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://pub45.ezboard.com/ucaiusfabius.showPublicProfile?language=EN>Caius Fabius</A> at: 2/28/02 8:04:44 pm<br></i>