[TheForge] ABANA

[Dave Brown]

At 10:34 07/06/02 -0400, you wrote:
>At 12:05 AM 7/6/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>
>
>>Ralph wrote:
>> > Well,
>> > Speaking as an displeased reader. I much prefered the content of the Pub
>> > when Mr McCarty was doing it. <snip>
>> > Ralph
>>
>>PS: I think Jim did an excellent job on the Ring and am not sure why the
>>board saw fit to fix something that was not broken.  <snip>
>
>Um... I'm gonna disagree with the above because ...<snip>I
>
>Aaron

I'm also gonna disagree with Ralph, but for a different reason ... namely 
the "...that was not broke" portion.  If I remember correctly the Ring (and 
possibly the Blow) was coming out later and later.  For a quarterly 
publication we were getting the Winter issue in late Spring and it seemed 
that each issue was getting later and later.  There sure was enough 
grumbling on this list at that time for that very reason.  This may not be 
"broke", but the gears and bearings were certainly grinding.

I've met Jim and he's a really nice guy.  But that doesn't excuse the ever 
expanding delays in publication that we were experiencing.

Couple that with a potential for savings and pretty you have a good reason 
for pursuing competition.  Besides, good job or not, the Board would be 
remiss if it didn't periodically investigate other publishers.  After all, 
competition is a good thing.  This is a normal and healthy business practice.

Dave Brown