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Ever Improving Moon Miners' Manifesto
11/06/2006
Since the fall of 1995 when MMM began to serve Artemis Society International starting with issue # 90, we have made many improvements aimed at making MMM a better vehicle for ASI, and since July 2000, for the Moon Society (ASI's successor for Member Services.)
- We have redesigned our masthead, returning to two color printing, the stylized lunar landscape being in blue.
- We have gone to a light gray heavier paper for the cover sheet.
- We have appended the name Pleiades next to Moon Miners' Manifesto, Moon Society Journal being the name of the four-page centerfold section on which the Society has first priority.
- We have started printing the centerfold section on blue paper to better distinguish it from the rest of the newsletter.
- We have worked hard with ASI personnel to work out the bugs in the way we get the updated mailing list, so that we can do a better job of seeing that ever one who has paid to get MMM as a Moon Society membership benefit does get it.
- ASI, at our suggestion, has put in place an automatic "Chronkite Program" which grabs all Moon related news, puts in on the ASI website, and emails it to the MMM editor. This program is not currently working.
- We are working on a program that will automatically alert the editor to new, not just updated, files in the Artemis Data Base. As of October, 2002, this project had not been implemented by the Moon Society/ASI web team, and was abandoned.
- In the past, we had received cartoons from two persons, and illustrations on one occasion from another. Unfortunately, such contributions are not regular. Now two more Moon Society members have joined the least of repeat contributors.
- It is a challenge to fill the centerfold section with Artemis Project and Moon Society related news. We are now dedicating some of this space to Moon Society Chapter | Outpost News.
- In May 2001, we began producing the newsletter in a pdf editon as well. To do this, we had to make changes in formating which resulted in additional improvements.
The "we" has been the informal group that works together to get MMM written, edited, printed, collated, folded and stapled, labeled, and mailed to you each month.
- Editor and principal contributor Peter Kokh
- Printer: CTI (Creative Technology of Sarasota, Inc.) - we just email them the pdf file and get the issue back, collated, folded, stapled, trimmed, and ready to mail in just a few days.
- Affixing mailing labels and mailing: Carol Nelson
If you have any suggestions for content, format, features, or any other aspect of MMM that would help us meet these goals, please contact us.
The real need is a steady flow of progress reports that convince the reader that the Moon Society is growing and doing things, and that it is worth his/her time and money to remain a member, and possibly become an active member. This is the bottom line, and we need help from anywhere!
In the meantime, taking advantage of the Society's new byline, "Private Enterprise on the Moon", we are filling these pages with articles and reports that play to that cue and a new Chapter & Outpost Frontier section
We are also planning to work on an online glossary of MMM-speak, and on an online subject index using a search engine geared to key word metatags in the online articles.
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