Okay, so you're a good person to brainstorm on this. Would it be worthwhile to merge the various functions more deeply? For instance, thinking of the electronic media as part and parcel of the newsletter, so that those research articles would be initially distributed via the electronic media, with the newsletter serving as the journal of record?

Basically, I'm finding myself thinking that the main advantage of a newsletter is a sort of permanence: it describes things chronologically in a way that online doesn't quite, and it *summarizes* in a way that online doesn't. But I'm not sure there is any information that belongs *solely* in a newsletter. Hence my "journal of record" viewpoint -- a model where the newsletter is the curated record of what was considered important from a given period...