Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!europa.asd.contel.com!noc.sura.net!haven!uvaarpa!mcnc!ecsgate!ecsvax!cjl From: cjl@uncecs.edu (Charles J. Lord) Newsgroups: comp.org.ieee Subject: Re: A way to stop getting Spectrum Summary: Byte bitch - not IEEE business Message-ID: <1990Dec11.000004.1251@uncecs.edu> Date: 11 Dec 90 00:00:04 GMT References: <1990Dec9.082717.868@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <2383.27639c4d@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com> Organization: Triangle R&D Corp,RTP,NC Lines: 17 The point re Byte's bag is moot - they have gone to sticking the label directly on the cover. Not such a great loss since Tinney no longer does the covers, though. To answer the question as to why plastic: magazines such as Byte went from a paper sleeve to a plastic bag in order to allow the packaging of separate catalogs (e.g. Jameco, JDR) in the same mailing. It is a marketing ploy that is not appreciated by many. The last issue I noticed of each was sent with a simple label on cover, though... -- * Charles Lord ..!decvax!mcnc!ecsvax!cjl Usenet (old) * * Cary, NC cjl@ecsvax.UUCP Usenet (new) * * #include cjl@ecsvax.BITNET Bitnet * * #include cjl@ecsvax.uncecs.edu Internet *