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  • Subject: RE: News400 RPG Source newsletter
  • From: "Leland, David" <dleland@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 13:20:34 -0500

RE: News400 RPG Source newsletter We subscribe to "The RPG Source". I aven't yet decided if it's worth it. Dave -----Original Message----- From: Dan Bale [<3d.htm>mailto:dbale@genfast<3d.htm>.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 1999 11:13 AM To: rpg400-l@midrange.com Subject: News400 RPG Source newsletter * Rant mode: ON Soapbox mode: ON * Some of the recent talk here on the list about rought to mind again a lingering, simmering pet peeve of mine. For the 15 years I've been in the IBM midrange, I ave relied on the excellent News400 magazine and Midrange Computing magazine and their predecessors) to educate me on the how-to's of AS/400 rogramming. Then, a few years back, News400 created "The RPG Source" ewsletter, providing "practical tips and techniques for more powerful programs" for $89 er year (10 issues). How did this material become separated from the ews400 magazine? Was this supposed to be another cash cow for Duke ublications? I can understand the "AS/400 e-Developer" and the "AS/400 etwork Solutions" newsletters because they appeal to a much smaller portion of the News400 udience. But RPG? A pure guess here, but would it be overexagerrating to uggest that 90% of the News400 audience works with RPG? So now I'm looking at $129 (out of my own pocket) per ear for News400 plus $89 per year for "The RPG Source". Am I he only one that blinked? How many of you out here on the list subscribe to "The RPG ource"? And, no, $89 per year isn't going to break me. ut I get tired of getting hammered with the "only pennies a day" rap. (If I took advantage of all the "only pennies a day" ads I see and hear, 'd be broke in a day!) If the huge majority of the News400 audience works with RPG, hen why have a separate newsletter? BTW, I thought I remembered that Midrange Computing ad a similar RPG newsletter, but I could find no reference to it in a ecent issue or on their website. Did they publish one before? If hey did, why did they stop? * Rant mode: OFF Soapbox mode: OFF Thanks, I feel better now. But just a little it. - Dan Bale +--- | This is the RPG/400 Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to PG400-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to PG400-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to PG400-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list wner/operator: david@midrange.com +---

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