A2DEH%mit-ml@sri-unix.UUCP (01/27/84)
From: Donald E. Hopkins <A2DEH@mit-ml>
Date: 27 Jan 1984 0017-PST
From: Chuck McManis <MCMANIS%USC-ECLC at sri-nic>
To: info-micro at brl
Re: Late Bytes
Of course last I heard Byte had an account at Mit-Mc, so why not
redirect all current flaming on directly. Arm chair complainers
UNITE!
--Chuck
P.S. Thats BYTE@MIT-MC for you arpa people Some!weird!address!at!ucb-vax!and!then!on!to!the!arpanet for usenet people :->
Byte magazine DID (note the tense!) have an account on the
late great MIT-AI PDP-10. (May it rest in pieces.) The name of the
account was BYTES@AI, (Let me recapitalize [or is that
"recapitulate?"] for clarity: byteS@ai [nOw lET'S NoT gEt iNTo
anOTHeR cASE seNSitiVity ArGUMEnT aGAin!]) and (sure enough) it was
"owned" by Richard Shuford of Byte Publications. As far as I can
tell, it went away when AI did. BYTE@MC is Roger L. Long, not Byte
magazine. PUUULLLLLEASE don't send him mail demanding your
magazine; he's not who you want! Sending mail to BYTE@MC when your
Byte magazine is late make just as much since as sending mail to
POURNE@MC when your Hustler magazine is late! (Or does it?)
If it's the Post Office's fault that it takes the Bytes
entrusted to them 2 or 3 weeks to get to the mailboxes of the
subscribers, then Byte Publications should prod them into being a
little more prompt by getting boxes and boxes of U.S. Postal
Service Inquiry Forms, (the ones you fill out to trace a piece of
mail) printing the name and address of a subscriber on each one,
and delivering them to the post office. This would inundate the
post office with paper work, and they would have to send a little
slip to each subscriber saying "Did you receive your Byte? [] Yes
[] No" and return each one of these slips back to Byte
Publications. For free. They could be used to heat the whole
building, make stuffed animals, paper walls, or whatever. Next time
Byte sent out their magazines to their subscribers, the post office
people would think twice about routing them all through their
Antarctica branch, or whatever it is that they do that slows
everything up so much.
By the way, NOBODY'S really interested when you [second
person, plural] get your Reader's Digest, U.S. News and Dungeon
Report, Rolling Stone, High Times, SadoMasochist's SemiMonthly,
1040 forms, period, or Anthropophagist's Illustrated Journal, so
PLEASE don't post it!!! :-) [or (-: for you lefties]
-Don