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From: randy@bcsaic.UUCP (Randy Groves)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: R.I.P. BYTE:  Open Letter to The Editor
Keywords: BYTE, subscription, letter, fed up
Message-ID: <6807@bcsaic.UUCP>
Date: 1 Aug 88 17:28:40 GMT
References: <6646@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: randy@bcsaic.UUCP (Randy Groves)
Organization: Boeing Computer Services AI Center, Seattle
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In article <6646@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
>[ I hope the line eater gets diarrhea from this. ]
>
>	Once again, I open myself up to the unknown:  Either I'm going to
>get praised to high heaven, or flamed to a smoking pile of ashes for this.
>The probability of BYTE actually publishing this in their letters section
>seems to me to be rather low.  In any case, I think it's something that
>needs to be said out in the open.  Feel free to disagree with me on this;
>I'd love to be dead wrong about it, but I don't think I am.
>

Thanks for posting this letter - I hope that the editors read it and take
note, but I have my doubts.  I too, when called by some service or other as
to why I had not renewed my subscription, declined.  I was not as diplomatic
as you evidently were, though.  Thanks for the cogent and on-target letter
that is closer to what I was thinking and probably SHOULD have said.

When are people going to finally learn that the world out there is not all
painted blue? (or shades trying to be blue)?


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