Johnna Teare wrote: > > Why don't you post a brief remit to this list? I'm interested, although > sadly no longer active in the 'real' SAM world...
Okie dokie. The original idea of the SAM Community was to find out how many active SAM owners are left. I also decided to do a bi-monthly newsletter, which basically consisted of 4 sides of A4 containing raw news with no editorial/comments etc - the idea was to give fair coverage to all the people still working on the SAM at the time, as I felt that although Format had the biggest readership, it certainly didn't tell everyone about all the new stuff people were working on (hi Bob). As there was no editorial, no reviews, no articles, I felt that Bob couldn't say I was trying to kill his magazine off (nor kill the SAM off as he accused me of on a previous occasion). The situation has changed dramatically over the last number of months, Fred have gone (although they may return), Persona and Blitz have gone and Format - well who knows what they're up to, so maybe there is room to change the format of the Newsletter in a few months time to include articles. Anyway, membership stands at around 30 I think, which is fairly decent, but I reckon should be about double that. It's 2 quid for a year's membership, including 6 issues of the newsletter. If you're interested, drop me a mail off the list and I'll send you the address. Gavin
