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From: dkhusema@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Dirk Husemann)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: How to get rid of your subscribers - BYTE, An Example
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Date: 8 Aug 88 11:24:11 GMT
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I've been following all discussions of BYTE RIP so far: All I can say is
that everyone I read hit the point!

There doesn't seem to be much sense in supporting a mag like BYTE anymore
with one's money. I used to read BYTE because of its informative articles
on computer science theory _and_ practise. I don't care about those really
boring articles concerned with the "127 newest IBM PS/2 compatible keyboard
brushes with 3D graphic evaluation, tested by BYTE labs ..." 

If I want to have mags concerned with pc's I can get my hands on a couple
that are far better than BYTE.

I don't need to pay DM 150.00 (that's about US$ 75.00, folks over there)
just to get a pile of paper which is almost worthless to me! Where are
those *really* "in-depth" articles (I don't consider mere reprints of
articles which appeared *years* ago as up-to-date in-depth!) we liked so
much? Where's Bruce Webster? Where is the column about what's going on
in Japan or the UK? Where is the coverage of the new UNIX micros?

But - I almost forgot: There still is BIX! BIX - The BYTE Replacement?
I don't know, because it'd be *really* expensive to connect up to BIX 
from over here, from West Germany. Yes, I mean BIX, "the international
network."

BIX? Forget it (outside the US!).

I subscribed to "BYTE - The Small Systems Journal" - What I received
during the last 2 months was "BYTE - A McGraw Hill Publication." Where
are those 2 issues of "BYTE - The Small Systems Journal"? Somehow I
didn't get them ...

To sum it up: A masterpiece of getting rid of one's subscribers.

	- Dirk Husemann

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