jans@mako.UUCP (Jan Steinman) (11/16/84)
[Flame on! A moment of respectful silence for Microsystems, please.] (No offense meant to PC Tech Journal subscribers -- how would you like it if your PC magazine was suddenly switched to "Hot CoCo" or something of similar interest to you!) Those of you who recently received the letter (postmarked November 9, 1984, Farmingdale, NY) from (anti)Tech Journal may be interested in this reply. I would urge all of you to follow the last paragraph of this letter. (Use brown paper and a discrete return address.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Your Name Here Your Address Today's Date Shane G. Boel Circulation Manager PC Tech Journal PO Box 2968 Boulder, CO 80322 Sirs: I will not accept a single issue of PC Tech Journal. Cancel my Microsystems subscription immediately and refund the balance. I do not think replacing a general purpose computer magazine with a machine specific one is honest or acceptable. I do not approve of your predatory business practices and will take special care to never again purchase another Ziff-Davis publication, whether by subscription or at the newsstand. I also think it is dishonest of you to set the deadline for cancellation on the business day following your mailing! I received this notice on November 14, two days beyone the deadline, three business days after you mailed it! Any issues of PC Tech Journal received will be returned to you C.O.D.! Sincerely, Your Signature -- :::::: Jan Steinman Box 1000, MS 61-161 (w)503/685-2843 :::::: :::::: tektronix!tekecs!jans Wilsonville, OR 97070 (h)503/657-7703 ::::::
hull@hao.UUCP (Howard Hull) (11/21/84)
> [Flame on! A moment of respectful silence for Microsystems, please.] > > (No offense meant to PC Tech Journal subscribers -- how would you like it if > your PC magazine was suddenly switched to "Hot CoCo" or something of similar > interest to you!) As it turns out, I'd like it just fine. Good ol' Ziff-Davis seems to have gotten to my daughter's subscription to The Color Computer magazine as well... So what did they substitute? Creative Computing!!! '&%$#"!`{}*+<>@[]:;/ OOOOOKKKKK. Looks like the two copies of CC are going into a brown paper wrapper to be sent by Registered Mail to Ziff-Daviepoo & Co. with YADFAR... (Yet Another Demand For A Refund). Howard Hull {ucbvax!hplabs | allegra!nbires | harpo!seismo } !hao!hull
abc@brl-tgr.ARPA (Brint Cooper ) (11/23/84)
> > > [Flame on! A moment of respectful silence for Microsystems, please.] This is, indeed, not the first time Ziff-Davis has engaged in so predatory a business practice. If yoiu've been around for a while, you may recall SPACE AERONAUTICS, a professional journal covering the latest in aerospace. Ziff-Davis purchased the magazine, issued glowing reports about what wonderful plans they had for it, then swiftly discontinued it. The lesson for us all is to have VERY LONG MEMORIES! Brint (301) 278-6883 AV: 283-6883 FTS: 939-6883 Dr Brinton Cooper U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory Attn: AMXBR-SECAD (Cooper) Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md 21005 ARPA: abc@brl.arpa UUCP: ...{decvax,cbosgd}!brl-bmd!abc