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From: earleh@dartvax.UUCP (Earle R. Horton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: MacUser just won't stop
Message-ID: <6374@dartvax.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 31-May-87 14:28:48 EDT
Article-I.D.: dartvax.6374
Posted: Sun May 31 14:28:48 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 2-Jun-87 06:14:38 EDT
Organization: Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Graduate Students
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Keywords: MacUser, lapsed subscription, keeps on coming

This is for all the people who have posted complaints about MacUser's
subscription department.  When I first got my Mac, my wife and I
figured, why not a magazine?  So we sent in the card for a one-year
subscription to MacUser.  After a year, even the Dvorak columns started
to get boring.  I think what finally did it was the issue praising the
SE and Mac II, even before the machines had beeen released.  This is
supposed to be an objective magazine, and here they were praising
hardware that, as far as I could tell, they had probably not even seen.
The whole tone of the issue reflected something more suitable for the 
Bruce Springsteen Fan Club Magazine than for a serious publication that
is meant to impart information to adults.  "The smell of Bruce's sweat
in concert drives me wild." -->> "The SE is the best small computer ever
built, anywhere, even though we actually haven't had that close a look 
at it."

Anyway, when the one-year subscription ran out, I had had enough of
these assualts on my intelligence, and I didn't renew.  I figured that a
subscription for one year was a contract for one year, and that if I
didn't renew, then the company would just stop sending the magazine.
Well, the damn things just keep on coming!  Every month, we get the cute
little envelope that says: "Stop, Do you really want to cancel MacUser?"
(It's got a picture of an alert box that says this.)  And then we get
another copy of it.  Next month, another cute little letter, and another
copy of MacUser.  When does it stop?  It's been three or four months,
and I really don't want this magazine, but the company just keeps
sending it.  I figure that, sooner or later, the subscription department
will get the hint that this source of income has dried up, and will quit
sending the magazine, or will they?

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*Earle R. Horton, H.B. 8000, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755   *
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