Harvey - I'll ping some people I know to see what's up with this. Regards, Devon
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 12:35 PM, PackRat <[email protected]> wrote: > I thought (not at all sure, though!) I paid SIGAPL membership dues > about a year or two ago. (Yes, I'm aware they're now a chapter of > SIGPLAN instead of a separate SIG.) However, I never really received > anything as a member (NO "Quote Quad", for example, even though > receiving that is really why I wanted to be a member). And even if my > memory is faulty and I didn't become a member immediately, the > "official" statement is "Subscription is a benefit of SIGAPL > membership, but APL Quote Quad is also available to non-members as back > issues." > > Six months ago I finally got around to trying to purchase back issues > of "Quote Quad" to add to a 25-year run I managed to purchase a while > back. The "Quote Quad" web page (http://www.sigapl.org/qq.htm) states > (even today): > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Request a Publications Catalog or Order Form, or mail your order with > payment or purchase order, to: > > ACM Order Department > P.O. Box 12114 > Church Street Station > New York, NY 10257 USA > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Ah, ordering from the ACM itself! You can imagine my shock when my > inquiry letter was returned by the US Postal Service, stating: > > RETURN TO SENDER > BOX NO LONGER SERVICED > HERE > > What?! The ACM Order Department gone? Is the ACM teetering on the > brink of disappearing? > > The ACM web site seems to indicate otherwise, but I see no way of > purchasing back issues of anything. I'm sure many or most of you are > members of SIGAPL. How do I purchase back issues of "Quote Quad" from > SIGAPL or ACM? I really would like to get hold of these. > > I'm talking several years' worth of back issues: vol. 32, no. 1 to > present (based on the QQ web page, it appears that vol. 35, no. 3 may > have been the final issue, but I'm not sure of that). I'm really > serious about acquiring the more recent volumes and issues (I believe > one or two issues each year were "conference" issues, and I'm including > them in this request as well), so if any of you are willing to part > with these, please contact me. > > Whether from SIGAPL/ACM or from you, I'd really like to fill in the > "missing" issues noted above. And, if anyone would like to dispose of > volumes 1 to 5 (not sure if too many people go back that far), I would > be very interested in acquiring those as well. > > Thanks in advance for any info you can share! > > Harvey > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Devon McCormick, CFA ^me^ at acm. org is my preferred e-mail ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
