Electronic publication
Jane McGary (Mon, 17 Nov 2014 10:26:50 PST)

Jude wrote,

The electronic publication would be accessible online with a browser,
not sent as an email. There is a huge difference in terms of download
time between the two. If the e-journal is downloadable, it would be
as a pdf, which can take a long time with a slow connection, but
still better than getting a huge file as an email attachment if you
have to get it through a telephone line.

I know this because until three years ago I lived in a rural location
where fast connections are not available unless you go for satellite,
which is very expensive and also said to be slow to upload.

"Primitive" describes a significant part of the US population at
present, in terms of connectivity. Coverage is much greater in the
more developed parts of Europe. It is not the fault of "a few folks
in the group" that they don't have the prime service that Jude, and
now I, enjoy. David Pilling addressed this in more severe terms in
his latest post; remember that we have a lot more distance here in
North America than in the UK to get cable across, and low population
density in rural areas discourages companies from extending their
services there.

Jane McGary