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From: mikem@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Mike Morton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: MacTutor gripe!!!
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Date: 22 Jul 88 21:52:28 GMT
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MacTutor is indeed pretty awful about acknowledging, accepting, and publishing
articles.  I never submit an article until my previous one has been printed.

If it helps, other magazines aren't always a whole lot better.  I've had both
BYTE and Dr. Dobb's Journal accept articles, then change their minds.  At
least BYTE pays when they do this; DDJ has yet to do so, but says they will.

On the lighter side, I was pressing Dave Smith at MacTutor about a particular
article last fall.  He finally admitted I didn't have to worry about whether
my article was accepted; he says in all his years of publishing MacTutor,
he's only rejected ONE article.  Everything else just takes its time.

Think of it as a hard-copy newsgroup, moderated very slowly but very loosely.

 -- Mike Morton // P.O. Box 11378, Honolulu, HI  96828, (808) 456-8455 HST
      Internet: msm@ceta.ics.hawaii.edu
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