The Medical Historical Society of NJ, for example has an opt-out program, where you can opt-out of receiving the paper copy and only receive it electronically (via email).
Note that that's about to happen here as well -- starting in January, you can receive Pikestaff as online-only. The question is, once that happens, how many people will pay any attention to it at all? My guess is few.
If you're looking for an SCA example, the Barony of Iron Bog put the Iron Monger online so that people could just go to the website and read it from there.
Carolingia actually made more or less the same switch a few years back.
In this world of immediate gratification, people have conversations and then are done with them.
True, and I can't claim that I've thought this through completely. But that's sort of where this "journal of record" idea is coming from -- not so much a continuation of the conversation as a record that it happened. That's potentially useful as a historical resource. (Or not: it may be that the whole idea is daft.)
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Note that that's about to happen here as well -- starting in January, you can receive Pikestaff as online-only. The question is, once that happens, how many people will pay any attention to it at all? My guess is few.
If you're looking for an SCA example, the Barony of Iron Bog put the Iron Monger online so that people could just go to the website and read it from there.
Carolingia actually made more or less the same switch a few years back.
In this world of immediate gratification, people have conversations and then are done with them.
True, and I can't claim that I've thought this through completely. But that's sort of where this "journal of record" idea is coming from -- not so much a continuation of the conversation as a record that it happened. That's potentially useful as a historical resource. (Or not: it may be that the whole idea is daft.)