Yaas. And I suspect that you are, in a way, the exception that proves the rule. A newsletter can be useful and interesting *if* it is run by a highly motivated Chronicler, who is eager to do the legwork to produce a really great publication. But it's never a good a idea to *mandate* such a thing, because the concept winds up buried under people who are doing the minimum to fulfill the legal requirements.

So the implication there is that newsletters as traditionally conceived probably shouldn't be mandatory, but they shouldn't be prevented either. Having far fewer of them, solely run by the people who *want* to do them, would likely provide everyone with a much healthier model of the way the concept should be expressed...