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From: tedj@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Ted Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: MacTutor gripe!!!
Message-ID: <730044@hpcilzb.HP.COM>
Date: 19 Jul 88 16:13:24 GMT
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Organization: HP Design Tech Center - Santa Clara, CA
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>If you want some more articles, write them and try to sell them.  Ask for the
>submission guidelines for articles.  Don't just complain, help fix the
>problem.

I did!  4 months ago!  It took MacTutor that long to acknowledge receiving
it.  It was sent return receipt requested, so I know it got delivered 4 months
ago.  After 6 weeks with no word, I sent a followup letter.  After they ignored
that, I just forgot all about it.  Imagine my surprise when I got a form letter 
from them saying "we just got your article, and are in the process of 
reviewing it". 

I just got e-mail from someone who submitted an article 12 months ago,
and is still getting the runaround.

And David Philip Oster, who wrote that wierd staircase program a while back
(with the continually-increasing tone) said that the reason he wasn't posting
the LSC source code to the net was because he was submitting it to MacTutor.

Since MacTutor's author's guidelines offer pretty healthy compensation (to
the tune of $300/article, if I remember correctly), I think that he probably
*did* submit the article.

>(And I am hoping to get an article or two written by the end of the year on
>some really esoteric hacking I've been working on.)

Good luck getting it published, if it's written in C!  1/2 :-)

-Ted