Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!sdl!mntgfx!killops From: killops@apd.mentorg.com (Scott Killops @ CASE x2856) Newsgroups: comp.realtime Subject: Re: Embedded Systems Programming Message-ID: <1991May31.064230.21020@apd.mentorg.com> Date: 31 May 91 06:42:30 GMT References: <19104@csli.Stanford.EDU> <1252@telesoft.com> Distribution: comp Organization: engr Lines: 37 In article <1252@telesoft.com> bruceb@telesoft.com (Bruce Bergman @nova) writes: >In article <19104@csli>, knight@csli.Stanford.EDU (Bob Knight) writes: >> In article <154140@pyramid> csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl Gutekunst) writes: >> > >> >mailed in their questionnaire twice, but haven't heard a peep. Since I've >> >been doing nothing but designing and buying imbedded systems for the past >> >four years (dedicated communications frontends), I'm not exactly sure what >> >criterea they are using. >> >> Hear, hear! I had a paid subscription before they went to controlled distrib- >> ution, and filled out a card. Got dropped. Called their circulation manager, >> who said, basically, that I qualified. Got another card. No response. I've >> been doing embedded systems work for over seven years now. I don't know what >> their criteria are either, but it ain't worth the trouble to figure them out! >> >> ESJ, are you listening? > >Yep, we're listening, I promise! > >I know there are folks out there who are frustrated by this, and I don't have >any good answers, except that perhaps you should try again. When we went to >a controlled circulation, it was with the express purpose of increasing the >readership numbers. We did that. Readership is about 50k now, and a goodly >portion of that is controlled, while another, smaller portion is paid. > >During the transition to controlled, we were completely inundated with the >number of requests for subscriptions. As a result, there were a number of >(oh, let's just say it) "screw-ups" in the circulation department. Folks got >dropped who had valid reasons for receiving the mag, etc. Yeah, like me. I got dropped with about a third of my PAID subscription left. After hassling for a while and being told to just send in a card for a new free sub, I finally got too involved with my busy project and too pissed off and just gave up on em. (Should have hassled em more, but the marketing types in my group all got qualified, so I just read their copies.) Scott Killops killops@mentorg.com