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- From: potts@oit.itd.umich.edu (Paul Potts)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: Is MacTutor still alive?
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 18:27:34 GMT
- Organization: Instructional Technology Laboratory, University of Michigan
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- References: <1993Jan24.135453.25795@infodev.cam.ac.uk> <47490001@hpkslx.mayfield.HP.COM>
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- In article <47490001@hpkslx.mayfield.HP.COM> ted@hpkslx.mayfield.HP.COM (Ted Johnson) writes:
- >
- > 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 ($400.). They kept coming up with lame excuses, which
- >included: "We don't mail out checks until a month after we publish someone's
- >article", "The person who signs the checks is on vacation", "Oops, we forgot
- >to mail it out", etc.
-
- If it's any consolation, I think their policy really _is_ not to send out
- checks until after the article is published. At least, when I got an article
- published in it in 88 or 89, that's how it worked. It also took them many
- months between submission and publication of the article.
-
- Mine is pretty much out of date too by now...
-
- --
- Politics is crime pursued by other means.
- potts@oit.itd.umich.edu CI$ 71561,3362 (rarely)
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