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From: pv9y@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Diatribe #11a:  MacUser
Message-ID: <4630.269d9dbf@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
Date: 13 Jul 90 14:09:03 GMT
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In article <3337@leah.Albany.Edu>, derek@leah.Albany.Edu (Derek L. / MacLover) writes:
> 	Well, I've just been reading the August issue of MacUser.  I've had
> problems reading MacUser in the past, most of which exhibit themselves in
> the urge to throw it against the far wall of the room.  These problems are
> usually brought on by editorials in which the authors so shamelessly
> back-pat and Mac-pat (sorry about the pun), that any _content_ is quite
> overwhelmed in the process.  This month's issue is sadly no different.

So read TidBITS. We don't write like that. :-)  We don't have ugly color 
schemes or much in the way of distracting graphics. And there isn't a
single drop-out card in the whole thing (though it's an interesting
thought - to have HyperCard start printing as soon as a user moves to
a certain card - truly annoying :-))

The disadvantages? It's free so you can't waste money on it. It's
never more than 40K of stack (about 16K of text) each week so you can't
waste too much time on it.  Each week's stack can merge with the
previous one's to form a complete searchable archive so you can't
spend your time flipping through the issues looking for that article
on X.  It's kind of hard to read on public transportation without a
Mac Portable. And it may not be Mac-centric enough to make people at
MacUser to want to read it. Such is life.

The preceding was a shameless ad for a free publication. Just so you
know...

> 
> 						Derek L.
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Adam C. Engst                                pv9y@vax5.cit.cornell.edu   
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