Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Tek) 9/26/83; site mako.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!tektronix!orca!mako!jans From: jans@mako.UUCP (Jan Steinman) Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: Microsystems... Message-ID: <374@mako.UUCP> Date: Tue, 20-Nov-84 12:57:31 EST Article-I.D.: mako.374 Posted: Tue Nov 20 12:57:31 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 21-Nov-84 05:25:11 EST References: <5861@brl-tgr.ARPA> Reply-To: jans@mako.UUCP (Jan Steinman) Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 29 Summary: [Ziff-Davis, this line's for you. EAT IT!] In article oacb2@ut-ngp.UUCP (oacb2) writes: >...The publisher (Ziff-Davis)... simply decided not to publish the magazine >any more (presumably, of course, because it was not profitable). The rumor I have heard is that Microsystems >was< profitable, but Z-D ANALysts decided there wasn't enough potential for circulation growth. It's predatory capitalism at its finest -- during a recession (which many industries still have, despite Reagonomics) it is cheaper to buy manufacturing capacity than build it. Z-D found a quick, cheap way to hire a bunch of trained publishing people, pick up some capital equipment, and add new, unsuspecting subscribers to the rolls of PC Tech Journal, which brings us to... >They have tried to pull a fast one by sending out letters with a deadline >for reply only a few days after they sent it and only giving one option -- >substitution of PC World. I don't think they can get away with that and >suspect that anyone who sends them a letter asking for it will get a refund. As I netted in an open letter to Z-D, I would urge anyone who receives unwanted issues of PC Tech Journal to return them C.O.D. to Z-D. (Of course, I cannot even suggest return address fraud, but it doesn't take much imagination to figure out who Z-D would be willing to receive C.O.D. from!) -- :::::: Jan Steinman Box 1000, MS 61-161 (w)503/685-2843 :::::: :::::: tektronix!tekecs!jans Wilsonville, OR 97070 (h)503/657-7703 ::::::