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From: bjc@pollux.UUCP (Betty J. Clay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: End of Amigan A&J  :-(
Message-ID: <13951@pollux.UUCP>
Date: 8 Feb 89 15:51:19 GMT
References: <9145@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
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In article <9145@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> rlcarr@athena.mit.edu (Rich Carreiro) writes:
>I received my A&J yesterday to find some bad news.
>Dues to the unexpected and serious (slim hope for improvement) illness of
>the editor, A&J ceases publication with Vol III, No. 6.  The issue said
>that anyone with unexpired subscriptions will get a full refund for the
>issues they haven't received within 30-45 days.
>
>This is too bad.  I loved their irreverence and wit, and their willingness
>to criticize things that deserve to be criticized.  I'll also miss
>John Toebes's and Bill Hawes's columns.  Hopefully they get picked up by
>another mag [which I would then most certainly subscribe to].
>
>The whole thing is just too damn bad.  :-(
>
>
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>* Rich Carreiro                 "Back off man, I'm a scientist."              *
>* rlcarr@athena.mit.edu                - Dr. Peter Venkman                    *
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Rich, 

You are SO right that it is a serious loss to the Amiga community.  I do hope
that the columns by John Toebes and Bill Hawes will be continued in some
other magazine.  However, the possibility of some other magazine carrying
on with the other parts of THE AMIGAN A&J is exceedingly slim.  Editor
Dick Barnes IS the AMIGAN.  He has done most of the research, the writing,
the planning, and everything else.  The personality of the publication is
his alone.  His style is inimitable.  Believe me - if I were capable of
carrying on such a thing, I'd jump at it.  So would many others.
 

Dick Barnes is now allowed only two hours a day to work.  Those two hours
are spent at his Amiga, and I'm hoping that we might hear from him through
some other publication - though he has certainly not mentioned such a 
possibility.  He has arranged for help in making back issues available, and
also for getting copies of his disks of PD software to those who wish to
order them.  There was no possibility of anyone carrying on the kind of
publication he has provided, so he is simply closing it down.  

We have lost a VERY GOOD THING!

Betty Clay
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