[TheForge] ABANA

[Ralph E Douglass]

Dave Brown wrote:
> 
> 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
I am thinking that y;all have gotten a bit confused.... All I was
complaining about was the fact that the pubs are show casing 90% non
North American smiths.
I did not make the "p.s." comment.
As for the potential savings... that is another story. I would like ot
know whether or not there was a real savings. Or were there 'unforseen
additional costs' after the fact. So far George has made the claim that
there were no real savings. And so far there has been no rebuttal. Why?
And so far I can find no data off of the really poor ABANA web page.

Ralph
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