Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: The Journal of C Language Translation
Message-ID: <1989Apr1.224103.22256@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <414@philmtl.philips.ca>
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 89 22:41:03 GMT

In article <414@philmtl.philips.ca> ray@philmtl.UUCP (Raymond Dunn) writes:
>It appears promising as a source of "inside" 'C' implementation information,
>although the contents of this particular 38 page 6"*9" issue hardly appear to
>justify the subscription cost of $235 for 4 quarterly issues.

My reaction exactly.  At $40 I'd probably subscribe, but not at that price.
By setting the price that high, they've guaranteed that their audience will
remain small.  Even many libraries will balk at spending so much money for a
publication so small and specialized.  A pity; based on the sample issue,
it's stuff that should be more widely known.

>The journal is on the net (hello all at aussie), and I'm just a little
>perturbed by the fact that it seems likely that the mail-shot names and
>addresses were culled from this newsgroup...

I wouldn't jump to conclusions about that, especially since most people
don't give their addresses when posting.  Certainly the questionnaire
they sent out a while ago clearly used addresses from several sources
(they got two of mine).
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