Newsgroups: can.general
Path: utzoo!telly!evan
From: evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch)
Subject: Re: Unix Review Subscriptions
Message-ID: <1989May14.135239.20030@telly.on.ca>
Distribution: can
Organization: The Open Vapourware Foundation
References: <116@unifax.UUCP> <33@array.UUCP> <8905121452.AA10982@genie.csri.toronto.edu> <122@unifax.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 14 May 89 13:52:39 GMT

In article <122@unifax.UUCP> sl@unifax.UUCP (Stuart Lynne) writes:
>In article <8905121452.AA10982@genie.csri.toronto.edu> mart@csri.toronto.edu (Mart Molle) writes:

>}printed onto the cover somewhere.  The same magazine mailed to a Canadian
>}address is stuffed into an envelope (or at least a paper sleeve) that

>I get Unix Today, Computer Systems News, and Unix Review. None come in a
>wrapper.

>My CACM Journals do come in a plastic wrap.

Both Byte and PC Week also frequently come in plastic wrap. However, I don't
think it has anything to do with postage. It allows them to be shipped out
with 'inserts', ad flyers or 'special editions' which have more ads than
content.

If Unix Review is free in the US and it costs them extra to send the thing
to Canada, why don't they allow Canadians who 'qualify' get subscriptions
for the cost of the extra postage. Even at $0.50 per issue, that's only
$6.00 per year, and I'd subscribe in a second at that rate.

Instead, everytime I go to the US trade shows, I stop by the Unix Review
booth and fill out a new card to 'qualify for a free subscription'. About
four weeks after each show, I get a polite letter turning me down and an
offer to subscribe at some outrageous rate. At very least, I make them
pay to turn me down :-).

It wouldn't bother me so much if just one local library or newssstand got it.
-- 

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