Fwd: [Philmont]: Trek books on-line ? Why Not ?

I was interested in some of the seasoned Advisors opinions on the List here
re: "Trek Books on Line.."
 
Any thoughts from the heavy hitters ??

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The Philmont Registration is thru a lottery on-line now, right ? Solved a
lot of problems and saved a bunch of money...........

Why not put the Trek Books on-line in PDF and/or Word format ? (or other
format ?)
 
Wouldn't that save a whole bunch of money for the Book Printing and UPS
charges ??
 
We could print out copies of the Book at our end - or just portions of the
Book.
 
You could post "the Book" to a Web Site and give out a password to those who
have a trek confirmation # for a certain date or time to control the process.
 
You could have a printable form to write down your trek selections -and
those would have to be mailed / Fed Ex'd back. Just like now. Everybody would
get the book on exactly the same date and time.
 
If Philmont got behind in the Trek tweaking process - they could just send
out a postponement notice as to a new date & time that the "book" would come
on line.
 
I haven't sat down and thought this out completely -but there's gotta be a
workable solution using the Internet to save the time / money / and 'even up"
the playing field for those that are out in the boonies -just now getting
'THE PACKAGE".
 
I am a part-time lurker here so maybe this idea has been batted around & I
just missed out on the discussion ?
 
Bob McDermott
NWSC - Chicago NW 'burbs
'98, '02 w/ my son
710-E5 in 2005 w/ my daughter !

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Received on Sun Mar 27 21:58:09 2005