Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!ncrcan!ziebmef!timg
From: timg@ziebmef.uucp (Tim Grantham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Larry, you're no Jerry Pournelle...
Message-ID: <1989Jun4.100538.25055@ziebmef.uucp>
Date: 4 Jun 89 14:05:37 GMT
Reply-To: timg@ziebmef.UUCP (Tim Grantham)
Organization: Ziebmef Public Access Unix, Toronto, Ontario
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In article <226@maytag.waterloo.edu> giguere@aries5.waterloo.edu (Eric Giguere) writes:
>To quote a letter in the Transactor for the Amiga, May 1989,
>to Larry Phillips (yes, the one on the net):
>
>    "You can hardly accuse Jerry Pournelle of lacking imagination.
>     And sir, you're no Jerry Pournelle."
>
>What a strange compliment in the middle of an otherwise caustic      
>letter. :-)  Well, at least it means that the TransAmi is being read,
>even if its authors aren't being paid... *sigh*....
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Oh, are you in touch with all of our authors, Eric? Are you keeping records
to back up this kind of allegation? If not, keep such inflammatory statements
to yourself.

If *you* have not recieved your payments yet, fine, announce it to the world
if that will make you feel better. I will personally flame our publisher to a
crisp if you haven't received a cheque when payment was due. But next time,
try contacting me personally first so I at least have a chance to try to set
things straight.

Transactor for the Amiga pays it authors in the calendar month *following* 
the month of publication. Nick, Chris and I don't like this policy and
continue to lobby Croftware Publishing Inc. (the publisher, who pays the
authors) to change it to conform at least to the more usual standard of
payment on publication. However, Croftward has so stuck to its current
payment policy.

If there are any of our authors out there who have not received payment
according to Croftward's schedule, please let me know. We have some of
the finest programmers writing for us; we obviously wouldn't want to
jeopardize that with a bad payment record.


You have written some excellent articles for us, Eric. I hope you continue to
do so. But the kind of statement you have made doesn't exactly help to keep
the magazine that publishes your articles flourishing.

>
>Eric Giguere                                  268 Phillip St #CL-46
>For the curious: it's French ("jee-gair")     Waterloo, Ontario  N2L 6G9
>Bitnet  : GIGUERE at WATCSG                   (519) 746-6565
>Internet: giguere@aries5.UWaterloo.ca         "Nothing but urges from HELL!!"

Tim Grantham.
Editor, Transactor for the Amiga.


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