Newsgroups: can.general
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: BYTE billing nonsense
Message-ID: <1989Mar11.222241.15156@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1989Mar10.135659.2392@lsuc.uucp>
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 89 22:22:41 GMT

In article <1989Mar10.135659.2392@lsuc.uucp> dave@lsuc.uucp (David Sherman) writes:
>A month ago I opened our regular VISA statement, and on it
>was a charge for $30 or so from "McGraw-Hill, Maidenhead,
>England"...  [further details deleted]
>The letter from England was mailed from Kastrup, Denmark.
>...If BYTE has to use offices in
>England and New Jersey and mailing facilities in Denmark to
>bill Canadians (after all, McGraw-Hill has offices in Canada),
>I don't really need to deal with them.  I can live without BYTE.

It seems fairly common for stupid publishers to handle *all* non-US business
via Europe.  At one point my ACM journals tended to come via the Netherlands.

I too have decided that I can live without Byte, especially since they
dropped Ciarcia's column.
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