On Sun, 17 Oct 1999 14:37:25 +0100 Sun, 17 Oct 99 14:44:48 BST, Gavin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>What makes it exclusive? The simple fact that it excludes anyone who doesn't subscribe. > Anyone can get it for next to nothing so I'm >not sure how it's exclusive. That's true, but it isn't really my point. >Why do it? Originally it was to give news >coverage to people like Persona and Quazar who I felt Format wasn't >covering adequately (or at all in Persona's case) but of course we've >only really got Quazar left. I dunno, I still enjoy farting about with >the SAM, and I've found 30 like minded people so it isn't much hassle to >stick a little newsletter together every couple of months. Nothing earth >shattering in it, but there's always a few things available for the SAM >every couple of months. Granted there are people who don't have net access, but why not do an email version for people online. You've already seen an example of the difficulty faced by potential overseas subscribers. I still enjoy 'farting about' with things concerning SAM to a certain extent, and I'd even go as far as to say I'd like to see a newsletter done along the lines of the speccy one by Andy Davies (an occasional disczine in DSK format?). People like Persona and Quazar could put all the advertising they wanted into something like that. That would probably be a bit extreme though, so an occasional email attachment to interested parties would probably suffice. >This isn't a swipe either, btw, but there are a few people on this list >who seem to just hang about to criticise other people and say "why do >this?", "why do that?" Well why not? Of course it's a stupidly obscure This was a genuine concern rather than a criticism. I can see how you'd think otherwise though, and I'm sorry if you took it that way. >computer, with stupidly little support, but I still enjoy it. I get a >lot of letters from people happy with what I'm doing. *shrug* It's no >big deal :) Anyway, I hate reading stuff from a computer screen, I'd >much prefer to read it from paper. Let's just put it this way then: you are here, and I am here, reading each other. So what could you possibly tell me on a piece of paper that I can't read onscreen? That's all I'm saying... carry on and have fun! :-) Dave
