Re: Latest EDN

From: legg (legg_at_nospam.magma.ca)
Date: 09/16/04 

Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 11:02:09 GMT

On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 01:43:59 GMT, Spehro Pefhany
<speffSNIP@interlogDOTyou.knowwhat> wrote:

>Latest (September 2) issue, both my copies, have an extra
>whatchamcallit (signature?) of pages- so pages 50 to 64 appear twice.
>
>That's good luck for the advertisers in that section- they get double
>the exposure (and probably more than 100% better return). Such as the
>makers of that cool delay/pulse generator on page 60.
>

You're assuming that the readers cover the contents more carefully
than the publisher's proof-reader.

I was disillusioned, somewhat, in high school, to be pointing out to
the librarian that whole sections of new paperbacks were repeated or
missing. I was the sixth or seventh borrower, in the days when readers
actually signed their names on the checkout slip. Previous 'readers'
were some of the schools 'brightest and best'. I found it hard to take
them or the institution seriously, afterwards.

Mind you, 'Eyeless in Gaza' and the like, could be considered a bit of
a slog; but you wonder what other bull*** techniques were being
followed to maintain the 'rep'.

RL

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