An In-Bulletin
7 April 2002

The discerning reader may notice that the Web Version Kingspark News posted last week does not include some regular sections featured in past issues, for example, the composition of the board, upcoming events, and Charter President's column. The primary reason is that whereas in the past, the Club Webmaster would attempt to include entire issues of the club bulletin, save the obvious typo and factual errors, the present web version is now the product of an active process, based on but not restricted to selected articles from the regular issues of the bulletin. In short, the Club Webmaster now has editorial control and responsibilities for the contents of the web version. The only restriction is that he cannot publish articles without the consent of the authors concerned. But this is a time honoured good practice that any editor worth his salt would observe anyway.

An editorial policy for the web version is that we try not to give readers information that is easily and readily available from other parts of the District Website. For the same Website also hosts the web pages of the Club, including Kingspark News. That is why we would not include those regular features mentioned in the last paragraph. Specifically, one can visit the page on "Club Officials" for the composition of the board, the "What's New" page for upcoming events, the District's IPDG pages for the letters of the Club's Charter President, and so on. We hope that the Web Version can encourage readers to offer views on issues discussed in the articles.

We would try to publish the Web Version soon after the regular version with same issue number. In practice, the web versions would appear on Sundays.

We hope this version of Kingspark News would recruit, retain and retrieve ardent old-time readers and supporters of Kingspark News, not only in the District, but also abroad. It seeks therefore to be an international and interactive bulletin, which was what Kingspark News set out to be nearly eight years ago. In short, it seeks to be an in-bulletin.

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