RE: News400 RPG Source newsletter

["Leland, David" <dleland@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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




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