(note - please do not rate this up or down, this is just news...)

TPJ ceases publication

I'm too drunk to waffle for ages here, but things will work themselves out in the end, I'm sure - they always do.

cLive ;-)

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Re: Death of TPJ
by Ovid (Cardinal) on Aug 19, 2002 at 16:39 UTC

    I'm not going to cry my eyes out over this one. I paid for a subscription right before they folded and only got one magazine and no refund. Then, Sys Admin magazine kept sending me mail telling me that I wanted to subscribe to them so I could get a couple of articles that, in my mind, I had already paid for. Bah! I like The Perl Review better anyway (sour grapes?).

    Cheers,
    Ovid

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by cLive ;-) (Prior) on Aug 19, 2002 at 08:45 UTC
    There's always The Perl Review I suppose :)

    Yea Brian :)

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Re: Death of TPJ
by blakem (Monsignor) on Aug 19, 2002 at 09:21 UTC
    This is too bad. I remember when TPJ was the only mag I would read cover to cover. Guess its time to cancel my SysAdmin subscription....

    -Blake

      Eeek. No. OK, it's self-serving, but my column still continues to appear in SysAdmin, and there's a lot of other good articles there too. Please consider that before you cancel.

      Keep in mind that for some months (especially in the last 12 months), the income from my columns is the only income I make.

      -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker


      update: OK, I come back a half hour later, and this node is at minus 3 XP, and no followup comment. If you're bitter about TPJ's loss, please don't use me as a proxy. If you want the kind of content that I do for magazines, someone has to subscribe. I'd love to do all my work for free, but I have to get paid at some point, or else I don't eat and I don't have a place to live. And thank SysAdmin (and Linux Magazine, and WebTechniques before that) for letting me put my columns for free on the net. Don't be angry with them. And don't be angry with me, at least not telling me why.
        I guess my point was that the only reason I subscribed to SysAdmin in the first place was to get the bundled copy of TPJ. I felt slighted when they converted what was supposed to be two magazines into what amounted to an apendix.... Now that TPJ is no longer there, I feel like I've purchaced a jar of snake oil.

        p.s. I didn't downvote your node.... Your articles, in whatever mag they apear in, are always worth reading "cover to cover" ;-)

        -Blake

      I just cancelled my subscription. One of the big reasons I took it was for the TPJ. What was funny is the fact they didn't like it cancelled? What do they expect? Oh Well. I guess I will take a look at the the perl review now