I must be special, someone sent me another Free magazine offer. No, wait, it's only a free introductory issue. Something called "Inside Cisco Networking" promising to be the cat's pajamas. Flip over the card, only to notice that the subscription price is only $300.00 -- half off the newstand price of $600! Jeez, what a deal! For slightly more than the yearly cost of SmartNet for a 2501, I can get to read about Cisco from someone outside Cisco. To see what quality journalism I can expect from them, I searched for the publisher, Element K Journals, on yahoo.com. The link, www.computermarketinfo.com is redirected to some "UBid" auction site, www.shopitall.com -- not exactly installing confidence in me, yet. So, I try elementkjournals.com -- aha! This is the place . . . seems to be a lot of "Inside XYZ" publications here. Just about every computer technology and software I've ever heard of; looks a lot like the last few resumes headhunters sent to me. Poking around their website, I find this interesting tidbit: "Every Element K Journals publication provides 16 pages of ad-free content each month. We like to include several articles in each issue to guarantee that there's something of interest to all of our readers. Therefore, any article you submit should run no longer than four pages (about 2000 words)." Wow! I get to pay $300 per year for something the size of my kid's monthly school newsletter. As the "Free Offer!" floats its way into the rubbish bin, I notice a similar offer in the mail pile: "Inside Windows 2000". -jon- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=8093&t=8093 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
