Yes as I recall the magazine was pretty good during the Vreeland reign. On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 3:24 AM, Chris Vreeland via Texascavers < texascavers@texascavers.com> wrote:
> I was editor, or co-editor back in the mid-90's when we tried this, & it > helped a little for the first few months & all the correspondents slowly > drifted away from the idea mentally. > > I had lots of capable help from co-editors - Jay Jorden & Jim Kennedy in > particular, & great proofreaders in Katie Arens & Joy Kennedy & a quality > printer in Terry Raines, lots of help with mailing from Gill, etc. I'm sure > I've left some people out. > > Even so, it was a difficult, time consuming task, & beating the bushes for > material was the worst chore of them all. I wrote a small amount of it > myself, just to have things to fill issues. I worked at it for about 3 > years total, & while I got compliments & thanks, I endured enough baseless > criticism & pointless complaints that I don't think I'd go back to it > mainly for that reason, especially in light of the fusillades launched here > on cavetex in the last few days. (I briefly entertained the thought, then > noped out after the one from Kunath.) Back then, one person even complained > that one of my issues was too big & extravagant after I had decided to > personally foot the bill for the difference between the budgeted cost & the > cost overrun to print it. I got no response after pointing that out in a > reply. That email exchange felt GREAT. > > No good deed goes unpunished, indeed. > > Chris Vreeland > > On Oct 28, 2016, at 1:37 PM, Mark Minton via Texascavers < > texascavers@texascavers.com> wrote: > > We actually did that back in the ‘90s. Every grotto had a correspondent > that wrote summaries of trip reports given at their meetings and then sent > them to the Texas Caver editor. Each TC issue had a section on Grotto > Reports or some such, with a paragraph or two from each grotto that sent in > something. I did it for UTG for a while. Seemed like a good idea to me, but > I don’t think it lasted very long. Not sure why – I guess many > correspondents got lazy, moved away, etc. Shouldn’t be hard to reinstate if > interest is high enough, and it would be easier now with email. > > Mark Minton > <mmin...@caver.net> > > mmin...@caver.net > > > On Fri, 28 Oct, 2016 at 12:08 PM, Charles Loving via Texascavers < > texascavers@texascavers.com> wrote: > > To: Cavers Texas > Another stupid idea of mine. I don't have a clue as to how many grottos > there are or caver clubs. Each one should elect a scribe and send the > e-mail reports to a central place. Editor in chief. You can send photos > too. This is a picture of Crash Kennedy being eaten by Godzilla at Dimbulb > Cave in Lower Slobovia. > > Charlie Loving > > _______________________________________________ > Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com > Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/ > texascavers@texascavers.com/ > http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers > > > _______________________________________________ > Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com > Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/ > texascavers@texascavers.com/ > http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers > > -- Charlie Loving
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