Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!apple!usc!polyslo!vlsi3b15!vax1.cc.lehigh.edu!sei.cmu.edu!krvw From: utoday!greenber@uunet.uu.net Newsgroups: comp.virus Subject: on the recent BYTE virus article Message-ID: <0003.w8906292218.AA13144@ge.sei.cmu.edu> Date: 18 Jul 89 13:55:11 GMT Sender: Virus Discussion List Reply-To: VIRUS-L@IBM1.CC.Lehigh.EDU Lines: 23 Approved: krvw@sei.cmu.edu On the BYTE article with my byline on it. Let's just say that the BYTE staff are very creative in their editting and their copyed procedures. Although I was shown a proof of an earlier revision of what they did, they opted to run an article I never saw. Portions of that article I did *not* write. In particular, the tail of the article (the "The Sky Is Falling!" silly stuff) came out of some editor's keyboard, not mine. They softened the technical side of the article beyond belief ("An Interrupt Vector? Why would an interrupt care about direction and magnitude? We'll change that to something else.....Hey! Does anybody know anything about computers?"). Sigh. Well, my complaints went up to the editor, Fred Langa, and I can but hope that future writers for them would be pleased at the resulting article with their name attached to it. I specifically am displeased at the mush article they had the nerve to print with my name atached to it. The Real Moral: Writer's articles get screwed around, even at what used to be considered a fine publication. Argggh! Ross