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From: fede@bernina.ethz.ch (Federico Bonzanigo)
Newsgroups: comp.org.ieee
Subject: Re: A way to stop getting Spectrum
Message-ID: <1990Dec14.145041.16062@bernina.ethz.ch>
Date: 14 Dec 90 14:50:41 GMT
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Reply-To: fede@bernina.UUCP (Federico Bonzanigo)
Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zuerich
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The IEEE used to ship all its magazines and journals wrapped in brown
paper and only recently some of its publications switched to
polyethylene bags, Spectrum being one of the first ones. Quite too often
the paper wrapped journals arrive damaged (this may be a problem of
overseas surface mail). A couple of times I got a copy which was
completely unreadable with its pages glued together because it had been
soaked somewhere. Such problems disappeared almost completely with the
polyethylene bags.  I like to receive the publications I paid for
intact, therefore I would complain if the IEEE switches back to paper
wrappers and I would like that the remaining publications change soon.
Let's rather recycle polyethylene!

I do not like either the glossy paper. When I hold the journal in my
hand to read it the ink is smeared where my fingers were because it is
not absorbed by the paper. 

Federico Bonzanigo