Here in the East at least one publication, The Potomac Caver, (from the non-NSS- affiliated Potomac Speleological Club) does exactly what Bill Mixon suggested. The editor gathers articles and trip reports that are posted on various email lists and elsewhere, and reprints them. I think very little of the content is written specifically for the newsletter. There are also usually a few photos included because either the trip reports contained them or gave web links to online galleries. Everything is in black and white. This does indeed provide a good, if not complete, archive of reports, especially covering Germany Valley (Hellhole, Memorial Day Cave) where a lot of PSC members are active.
I don't know how much time the editor spends on the bimonthly newsletter, but she spends almost no time trying to drum up articles. I see no reason why this couldn't be done for the Texas Caver, at least until it gets back on its feet. Mark Minton mmin...@caver.net On Wed, October 26, 2016 4:02 pm, Mixon Bill via Texascavers wrote: > > Quite aside from problems with the timeliness and quality of the Texas > Caver, I am concerned about its very nature. It seems to be intended, > these days, to be a picture magazine, not a record of Texas caving. I > guess I'm old-fashioned, but I don't think that posting something worth > recording about Texas caving to Facebook or the Texas Cavers e-mail list > fulfills our obligation to history. The Texas Caver ought to strive to be > a permanent record of what's gone on. I'd love to see all those on-line > reports about Colorado Bend, Government Canyon, and similar project > weekends or TCMA work days printed in the Caver. I don't care if they are > in 9-point type at the back with no illustrations at all. They will at > least be in the NSS, TSS, etc. libraries on paper (and perhaps on the web, > too) in fifty years. Can the same thing be guaranteed by the archive of > the Texas Caver list or some grotto's Facebook page? _______________________________________________ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers
