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From: amiga@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Boing)
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Subject: AmigaWorld Contest
Keywords: letter of protest
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Date: 4 May 91 21:35:35 GMT
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Hello,  you may remember me from a while back as the malcontent who posted an
article here in comp.sys.amiga.misc about the mysterious missing "Win an Amiga
3000 Contest" in the subscription issues of AmigaWorld.  Well, I finally got 
around to penning a letter to send off to the publishers about it.  (Yeah, a 
little late, but better late than never...)  If you would like to add your name
to it, or have any suggestions, or would like to add your own postscript to it,
I'd be happy to compile them and send them off with this letter.  If you would 
like me to include your name in this letter, please reply via email and tell me
your name, address (in whatever form you like, if at all), and whatever 
contribution you would like to make, as you would like this information to 
appear in the letter.  I will probably mail the letter in a week or two, 
depending on how the responses go.  Thanks for listening!

-baron

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----------------------->8 begin proposed letter 8<----------------------------

Stephen Robbins
Publisher
AmigaWorld Magazine


Dear Mr. Robbins,

	I am writing to you at this time to express my extreme displeasure
with the AmigaWorld staff responsible for the decision to announce the recent
"Win an Amiga 3000 Frequent Buyer Contest" only in the February, March, and
April newsstand issues of the magazine.  I can find no justification for the 
deliberate attempt to exclude those of us who subscribe to AmigaWorld from
knowing about this contest.  I would not have known of the contest at all were
it not for a printing error on the cover of the April subscription issue which
announced the contest (but still contained no mention of it within its pages).
A subscriber should certainly count as a frequent buyer of AmigaWorld, and as
a subscriber, I fully expect that the magazines I receive at home contain the 
same information, content, and benefits of the newsstand editions.  I later
learned via e-mail with senior editor Lou Wallace that the contest could be
entered with a postcard, but the fact that entry was still possible did little
to assuage my feelings that I had been deliberately deceived.  I sincerely
hope that future decisions by the staff responsible will prove to be more
ethical.

					Sincerely,
					Baron K. Fujimoto