Really though, the minutes aren't that big of a deal and are the least of our problems. Typically they don't take more than five minutes or so. The worst is when and if you've been dark and you come back to light and you have two or three months of correspondence from GL built up. Email may be a little too far from the 'tradition' of reading them aloud. Plus, is it something you want to take away from your personal life to read when you are at home or work or should it be something that is read or given to you when you're in lodge and in that mode? In other words, is it better to take away time from your personal life for lodge minutes or Masonic Lodge time to get the minutes? To me, it needs to be in lodge in some form or fashion when I'm in that Masonic business frame of mind. Not with Beatbugs on the TV in the background or my daughter practicing 'Gravity' from Wicked up stairs. Worst yet, at work dealing with that.