Well, a couple versions of the GREX flier of the week went out to the JCC sale.
We have at least one more version being designed, thanks to John Remmers!
and several more are now on the drafting table.  If you've volunteered to
post fliers you can expect to hear from me by e-mail in the next few weeks.

67 responses total.

We passed out close to 200 at the JCC Sale Sunday.  I still have
some left over, and plan to pass them out.  I'm going to put a 
bunch in the free literature rack at the library, for example.

that's a good place. 

personally, i'm wary of ever _forcing_ a flier for anything on anybody. most
folks who don't take one voluntarily won't read it--they'll just throw it 
out as soon as convenient. but someplace like the library rack where people
can choose to take 'em, that's good.

Well, it wasn't like I was passing them out to total strangers on the
street.  Everyone there either had a computer or were interested in
computers.  Furthermore, I did qualify people a bit.  I first asked
them if they had a modem.  And a lot of people refused them when they
found out it was a long-distance call.

Well, I guess your campaign at the JCC sale worked on me, 'cuz here I am, and I
would like to talk to one of the guys who was staffing that booth, because I
was wondering if they were still selling a copy of the AUniversal Military
Simulator for mac. Thank you.
  Brit Woodman(jangel)

Welcome, Brit!  We're glad you joined us.

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That's great!

Hey--that's 4 new faces already!  Things should really start cooking around
here, now!

    On the GEnie list?  Has anyone gotten the new Pubnix listing yet?  Are
we on there?  I emailed the guy it said to email, but I never got a response.

The choice of "paper direct" paper for some of the fliers was wonderful.

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I just got a copy of Boardwatch--it's a big fat glossy basde in CO.  The 
Listing of Bulletin Boards is 4 pages of fine print--one line per board.
I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be worth the money, since we'd be lost among
the specialty boards--support for XXXXX software--Shareware download!  
That sort of thing--they also take display ads--the prices range from $150
for a single insertion of a B&W business card sized ad to $3000 for a two
page full colour ad.  (Both single insertions)  I think that's way out of our
league.


Perhaps when we have internet access--like *free* LD lines or something
it'll be worth while--since people in CO will be able to become regular
users...butI suggest we hold off.

What are LD lines?

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I think there aren't too many places where you can do the free telnetting.
A few Michigan towns are among the fortunate places.

Is there a list of them anywhere?

ann arbor :)

I posted the following to alt.bbs.ads:

Grex, a public-access UNIX system in Ann Arbor, MI recently
completed its first year of operation.  Now, we'd like to invite
you to join us.  An account on Grex costs you nothing. Simply
type "newuser" at the login: prompt.
 
Why do we do this?  Well, we hope that once you become a regular
user of Grex you will want to become a member.  Membership is
$6/month or $60/year.
 
One benefit of becoming a member is that you have a vote in how
the system is run.  Grex is run cooperatively by its members.
Members elect a Board of Directors, who take care of the
day-to-day operation of the system, but all important matters are
voted on by the membership.
 
We also offer:
    5 phone lines,
    internet mail to all users,
    read access to Usenet News to all users (we don't have a full
          feed, but we're working on it)
    post access to Usenet for members,
    UNIX games, and
    conferencing (including science fiction, cooking, writing,
                  nature and a bunch of other conferences)
 
To access Grex, set your comm parameters to 2400, 1200, or 300
baud, 7 data bits, even parity, and 1 stop bit (2400, E71). Our
phone number is (313) 761-3000.
 
See you  on-line!
 
Dan (danr@grex.ann-arbor.mi.us)
================================================================
Call Grex @ (313) 761-3000, Public Access UNIX in Ann Arbor
================================================================

excellent use of hyphens, btw.

Nice, but is anyone considering that each new user will use about 100K
disk space, and we are simply short of it.  Are we planning to have more
disk?

   There was something going around coop about us having a couple of disks
being tested... I would think that if they are running on another system
they would be throughly tested by now, but I guess not... there was also
some question of how much they would raise our electricity bills.  Still,
does anyone know when that's going on?

We should have more disk on-line real soon now.

re #18: Thanks. That's one thing you learn writing and editing
for a living.

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  I gave one to my mom to take to her computer group.

On December 23rd Dan and Russ will be taping a public service announcement
to be aired on local television starting around New Years Day and running 
once or twice a day for 7 days.  It will air on channel 9 on a program
called Soap Box.  Tune in to admire our very own GREX TV stars!

(Thanks, guys.)  Thank you also to the others who volunteered.  I'll be
getting back to you as the resonse from this spot dies out some.  ;)

I think it might be a good idea to discuss here some of the things we'd
like to see them mention in their 5 minutes of fame.

MACRO (Michigan Amiga Computer Resource Organization) has used both
The Soap Box program and CATV very succesfully in the past.

At last night's board meeting I requested that the publicity committe
be granted a budget of at least $3 a month for fliers.  The response
was positive, though I don't think a definite decision was made for the
long term.  We were, however, given a budget of $30 to create 1000 fliers
for the JCC sale coming up next month!  (Yeah!)   If anyone has a flier
design to contrribute, plaese get it to me asap so I can plan for copying
in the near future.

(485-4045 voice)

Misti


BTW, anyone who would like to distribute fliers, plaese also give me a call
and I'll get some to you asap for you to put whereever you think they
might attract the right sort of interest.

Would it be possible for you to upload an ascii version of the current flyer
here ?

Also, what kind of format were you thinking of to get the flyer in ?
AScii, Postscript , Paper Originals ?

I need paper originals since I haven't any connection between my WP software
and my communications software.  (Not even sneaker net with a floppy).

If you can send/give me a mac readable floppy Postscript is good too.

As to the "current" poster--we have 6 current at the moment.  I operate on
the assumption that people might stop to read fliers they haven't seen
before and that repetition is good.  

can that mac read Ibm format floppys ?
aal I can write is Amiga & Ibm

I doubt it--better make that paper originals.  Thanks, ecl!

  For something *COMPLETELY* different....

  There's a electronic message board up on the wall at Pioneer High School.
Messages are $2/{day, week???}... I was thinking that maybe I should go in
and try to get some more info about this... If it's $2/week, I'm sure I
could donate $2 for a week of ad, and maybe attract a few callers... Would
anyone have any objection?

  (hey, if the Mrs. Wise (Eric's mom!) can put up an 'AP Chemistry Rocks'
message, I'm sure a 'Call Grex 761-3000 modem 7e1 300-2400 baud' message
could go up :) )...

Sounds good, Russ.

  (ok, next time I'm down by the General Office, I'll try and check it out...)

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I'll take credit for that.  Which reminds me that it's time to post
it again.

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Well, my guerrilla flier posters and I did our level best to paper down town
A2 this evening and we'll be tackling EMU later in the week.  In the process
I met a co-oper who seemed interested in us specifically because we're
member owned and operated.  Hmmm.  He seemed likely to stop by soon.  I hope
he does.

You papered downtown Ann Arbor last evening, eh?  Hey, with any luck we'll
have the whole basketball crowd logging in here...

Seriously, nice job!

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