| From: | Neil Bothwick |
| Date: | 1 Aug 2000 at 14:42:15 |
| Subject: | Re: Amiga Active 11 |
Michael O'Hara said,
> Hi Neil, on 01-Aug-00 12:24:54 you wrote:
>>Amiga Active is not CU. You can't refuse to deal with a subject just because
>>a different magazine did.
> When did I say that?
You didn't, *I* did :)
> Obviously it's not CU, CU was good! ;)
See below
>>Should we also refuse to cover anything that AF did, considering that at
>>least four of the current AA writers have also written for AF as well as CU.
> Maybe the mag needs more new talent then?
See above. you're contradicting yourself.
>>There was another reason for covering it again. The CU article was
>>written over two years ago, when there were far less Amiga users online.
> Was it really that long ago? Wow. I thought it was only 12-14 months ago. I
> wasn't online at the time, although I rememer the article quite well.
How could it be 12-14 months ago when CU closed in 1988?
>>Remember that I posted here several times asking for suggestions for
>>Online topics. You had a chance to influence my choice of subject then
>>and chose not to take it.
> I'm sure I suggested something for the online coloumn. Noing me it was
> probably IRC related or something to do with IP Filtering.
One or two people mentioned IRC. But no one mentioned IP filtering,
probably because it had been covered a month or two earlier.
>>If you don't tell us what you want, how can we give you what you want?
> At present I don't have the time or the inclination to sit down and plan out
> exactly what I want from an issue of AA. Some things that spring to mind are:
Yet you have time to spit out what you don't like, even before you've
read it all?
> An editorial on why AmigActive isn't just going to be a Classic Amiga mag.
See issue one.
> An article pushing people to register shareware programs.
As part of an overall "what is shareware and how does it work" that
could be done. Or it could be included in a Rant'n'Rave, but you don't
like those.
Neil
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