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From: dkhusema@faui44.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Dirk Husemann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc
Subject: Re: Byte Magazine flame from FIDOnet
Message-ID: <362@faui44.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Date: 28 Jun 88 08:24:36 GMT
References: <6862@cup.portal.com>
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From article <6862@cup.portal.com>, by R_Tim_Coslet@cup.portal.com:
> In Message-ID: <22c1ccc2@ralf> 
> From: Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU , He writes:
>>
>>From:    Matthew Franckiewicz 
>>To:      All                                      Msg #86, 21-Jun-88 02:38pm
>>Subject: Byte4
>>
>>FLAME ON AGAIN 
>> 
> 	[_LONG_ story of problems with Byte Subscription, deleted]
>>
> 
> I don't know, these things do happen but I think this is an anomaly.
> 
	[ Other stuff deleted.]
> 
> 					R. Tim Coslet
> 
> Usenet:	R_Tim_Coslet@cup.portal.com
> BIX:	r.tim_coslet

	I don't know wether this is an anomaly or not. Back in 1987 (around
January) I subscribed to BYTE. Everything went smoothly. Well - almost every-
thing, for when I moved to a different place and informed BYTE of my new ad-
dress, the following thing happened:

	(1) Besides of getting BYTE at the beginning of each month by air mail
	- which I had paid for - at my *old* address (West German Postal Ser-
	vice forwarded it to my new place), I started receiving BYTE also by
	surface mail at the *end* of the month (Good luck for my little bro-
	ther for he got the surplus editions w/o paying DM 16.00/US$ 10.00).

	Writing to McGrawHill didn't change a thing (three letters). Okay, I
	thought, it's their money, forget it (besides my brother really like
	those freebies ...).

	(2) In October 1987 I got a couple of letters each asking me to pro-
	long my subscribtion to BYTE for another year. Great, I said to my-
	self, let's take that letter which reached me at my new address and
	subscribe for another year of air mail service. Said, done.

	(3) Those nasty little letters kept trudging in. Each one threatening
	me that my subscription will end real soon now. Panic. I wrote two
	more letters to McGrawHill - yup, you guessed it, no answer.

	(4) February 1988: I get a letter stating that that month' isssue is
	definitly the last one I'll get, unless I decide to subscribe for
	another ... . Well, I decide to wait and see, after all my check for
	the 1988 subscription has already been drawn.

	(5) March 1988: SURPRISE! I did receive BYTE magazine at the begin-
	ning of the month by air mail. Okay, I thought, this time they got
	it right (after a year ...). But -

	(6) April 1988: When I look into my post box, what do I see? TWO
	issues of BYTE magazine by AIR MAIL. Somebody sure does like my
	little brother, doesn't he?

	Any comment?

	-Dirk

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