Feets.

The club newsletter as a regular feature has had four editors (if you count the Potts as one!). It was an intermittent affair in the dim and distant past, remembered only by the club's greyhairs ...

It has now been relaunched with Alex Barry as editor-in-chief and those wizzened hacks, Dennis & Garry, gathering material from here and there.

Formats

My old issues are MS Word documents (100-200KB in size) and the new ones web-based - just a series of web pages.

Tom's, the Potts' and now Alex's issues are Adobe Acrobat (PDF) files (varying from under 100KB up to about 1MB in size) so you will need to download the reader if you don't already have it - it's free. If you're not sure whether or not you've got it then try reading a newsletter - if it doesn't open then download the reader. Why Acrobat? It's a de facto standard for document sharing and has many advantages over formats like Word docs, most of which I won't bore you with! The main ones, though, are that all fonts are embedded (so it doesn't matter if the newsletter contains any that you don't have on your system), the files are half the size of Word docs, and not only is the reader free but, unlike the viewers for MS products, it runs on virtually every platform - Windows, Mac, Unix, Linux, PDAs and all sorts of operating systems you've never heard of.

The Fifth Age: Alex

2008: Mar - May.

The Fourth Age: LMRB

2006: Oct.

The Third Age: Potts

2006: Apr - Jun - Aug.

The Second Age: Tom

Tom came up with the name "Feets". The series is incomplete since Tom hasn't yet tracked down all the issues but they may (or may not) materialise in due course.

2006: Feb.

2005: Mar - May - Jul - Sep - Nov.

2003: Nov

2002: May - Jul - Aug.

The First Age: LMRB

I have kept very few of my 52 issues. In fact, I had none when I looked a year ago but luckily I'd sent a few to Tom when he took it over so he returned them to me!

2002: Feb - Apr.

2001: Jan - Feb - Mar - Apr - May - Jun - Aug - Sep - Oct - Nov - Dec.