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Subject: MS Windows 3.0 (Embedded Systems Programming magazine flame)
Message-ID: <2774.UUL1.3#5129@willett.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 16 May 91 01:29:49 GMT
Organization: (n.) to be organized.  But that's not important right now.
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 Date: 05-06-91 (12:28)              Number: 2117 of 2164 (Echo)
   To: RAY DUNCAN                    Refer#: NONE
 From: MIKE HALLORAN                   Read: 05-06-91 (18:21)
 Subj: ESP FISH WRAPPER              Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE
 Conf: FORTH (58)                 Read Type: GENERAL (+)

 As an advertiser and contributor, I assume you have some leverage with
 Embedded Systems Programming magazine.  They seem, ah, confused.
 I was a charter subscriber; paid for it out of my own pocket.  When they
 went to controlled circulation, I assumed that I would qualify, since
 ESP is what I do for a living.  I even got a note in the mail assuring
 me that I was doubly qualified, since I subscribe to other M-F rags.  A
 year went by, and I got a letter saying that they had in fact received
 all the qualification cards I sent in, but they didn't think I was
 qualified enough to justify a subscription; but if I sent in just one
 more, they would think about it.  I was livid.  After calming down,
 which took several months, I sent a flame to Tyler Sperry on CIS, and
 got what must be the corporate standard response; none at all.  More
 recently, I left a msg on their bbs, and got a reply(!) from the sysop,
 saying that they only qualified people a couple times a year, that they
 were doing it now, and to inquire again if nothing happened in the next
 month or two.  The last issue I got was February 1990, and I have been
 waiting, a month or two at a time, for another.  Is that any way to
 run a business?

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