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From: ltf@well.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Nonsense in BYTE reader columns
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Date: Mon, 23-Jun-86 07:39:42 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 23 07:39:42 1986
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In article <1328@amiga.amiga.UUCP> jimm@homer.UUCP (Jim Mackraz) writes:
>In article <422@oscvax.UUCP> rico@oscvax.UUCP (Rico Mariani) writes:
>>In article <8606141823.AA12695@pavepaws> dillon@PAVEPAWS.BERKELEY.EDU.UUCP w
rites:
>>>
>>>	Get a Load of this, everyone (May 1986 Byte, pg 18)
>>>	...
>>
>>I saw this too, (as I'm sure many others did) and I was more than a little
>>bit peeved, not so much at this guy because, well, idiots will be idiots
>>(or rather, ignorants will be ignorant).  What really peeves me is that
>>BYTE would let such garbage be printed in the first place... isn't that
>>what technical editors are for?
>>
>
>I didn't see it first hand, but as I understand it the weeks following
>the publication of this letter were filled with lambasting on BIX (the
>BYTE bulletin board).  I'm sure BYTE has been wised up.
>
>Let's hear it for the good guys (us) and let's let this letter drop.
>
>				jimm



Should be interesting to see if that "lambasting" ever shows up in the
"Best of BIX" that Byte publishes every issue.  I'm not planning on betting
any money on it.

                                                      Lance Franklin