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- From: ted@hpkslx.mayfield.HP.COM (Ted Johnson)
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 01:52:25 GMT
- Subject: Re: Is MacTutor still alive?
- Message-ID: <47490001@hpkslx.mayfield.HP.COM>
- Organization: HP Response Center Lab
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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- References: <1993Jan24.135453.25795@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
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- >I ask is that I won
- >their August Programmer's Challenge, and in the November/December issue
- >they say they are going to send me the prize. I haven't heard anything
- >from them, and when I tried e-mailing their AppleLink address, my mail
- >was returned. Anybody know anything about this magazine?
-
- That sounds like the MacTutor before they went to new management.
- I submitted an article to them in March 1988. I never heard anything
- other than "thanks for the article, we'll keep it on file." I forgot
- all about it until I saw my article appear in the July 1991 magazine (almost
- 3 *years* later -- when a fair amount of the material in the article had become
- incompatible with the current System/Finder). I think that if I hadn't
- noticed it, they never would have sent me a check. As it was, it took
- over three weeks of me calling them every few days before they finally
- mailed me a check ($400.). They kept coming up with lame excuses, which
- included: "We don't mail out checks until a month after we publish someone's
- article", "The person who signs the checks is on vacation", "Oops, we forgot
- to mail it out", etc.
-
- I hope you have better luck than I did.
-
- -Ted
-