Re: ATM "Say it ain't so!"

["David B. Toth" <ve3gyq@amsat.org>]

At 11:14 AM 5/26/97 -0400, Fred Maxwell - No spam e-mail accepted. wrote:
>Dear Sirs,
>
>I recently received the following disturbing message through the Amateur
>Telescope Makers' list server on Internet:
>
>> The new S&T has dropped the name for the department Telescope Making and
>> renamed it Telescope Techniques. Also this department may not appear every
>> month!
>

    <<<    much reasoned thought deleted   >>>

Fred: in the last few weeks, Astronomy magazine had been branded as the
Satan of magazines for not releasing TM mag articles.

Now you do raise legitimate concerns re a change at Sky and Tel ...

It occurs to me that the problem MAY be (I obviously don't know for sure)
that they don't get enough outside articles to print to keep a monthly
column going. Remember that just because we have a bse of concerned and
interested folk, it does not necessarily follow that articles are being
written.

In fact, with lists like the ATM list, some folks may just be typed out, or
their need to write may be met by being on such a list.

Just a thought ...


Dave


David B. Toth, MD    ve3gyq@amsat.org
Lima, Ohio

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  ignorant as an educated man outside his own field" - Will Rogers