[ I find that, in using the elm mail reader, I can't readily get both
inclusion of message and the ability to not reply to telusa-scit.]
I guess I did mean transcribing the story into RIT, or alternatively,
scanning it into a jpeg or gif file, and making it available by mail
after uuencoding. The latter wouldn't require much effort at all, provided
that there is a scanner available. The former is more work, but will
result in an editable document, in which we can put in all sorts of copyright
info etc, plus of course it would be a much smaller file. The work
of transcribing can conceivably be split among some volunteers. The
disadvantage of the graphics approach is that the resulting file will
be much larger and will probably have to get split into multiple files
and transmitted in installments. The advantage is that it will better preserve
the integrity of a copyrighted work as it would not be easily editable.
Either way we choose to go, my thought was that, initially, we can
distribute the document among the true believers of Telusa, agreeing to
pay some agreed-upon amount, to be transmitted to the owners of the doc.
This would be a quick "prototype" of the distribution plan, without the
usual problems of advertising, getting people to comply with the payment
requirments etc.
Bapa Rao