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Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 08:50:13 +0930
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Marco Molteni <molter@logic.it>
Cc: FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG>, ct@ct.heise.de
Subject: Re: Testimonial
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On Mon, Sep 15, 1997 at 03:35:12PM +0200, Marco Molteni wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Sep 1997, Greg Lehey wrote:
>
>>  In fact, they have a sister publication, iX, which deals with
>> UNIX, but it's not nearly of the same quality as c't.
>
> It makes me think about a "Readers' Digest of C't & iX", what about
> it ? ;-)

As I said, the quality of iX isn't that great.  I don't know if it
would add anything.  c't must have noticed that, too, because they
carry articles on Linux and FreeBSD from time to time.

> On Mon, 15 Sep 1997, David Kelly wrote:
>
>> Marco Molteni writes:
>>
>>> Perhaps we could post some "call for lobbying" ;-) on the
>>> relevant newsgroups/mailing lists.
>>
>> I suspect the best thing would be to frequent the english articles
>> posted on their web site. The fact people bother to hunt them down
>> and read their stuff would be the best way to indicate a demand
>> for their product.
>
> Yes, this could be an idea, although I do hate reading articles on
> my web browser instead of reading them on paper.

So print them.

> Now that I think about it, the reason could be that I have a dial-up
> connection to the Internet and that here in Italy we pay urban calls
> on a per minute basis :-(

My sympathies.

Greg