[OT] do you have any troubles with SysAdmin mag?

Hello all

I am asking here because I know that a number of Monks are System Administrators, hence potential subscribers of the magazine and because all started after subscribing Sys Admin when it published "The Perl Journal".

I am having a lot of troubles in receiving the magazine: some issues never arrived, some didn't hit my desk at due time and I had to ask for them to be resent; in particular a recent story is worth telling

On January 8 I complained about the december 2002 issue that didn't arrive; on January 9 they replied that they asked for the issue to be resent
I renewed my subscription to the magazine on January 13: about 70$, nearly 50% more than previous year's price; no December issue in sight
asked again for december issue on January 18; an exact copy of the January 9 message hit my mailbox the following day;
January issue didn't arrive, too; February passed away, and I got that month's issue; on March I had the March issue: I wrote another mail on March 10 asking for the two missing issues;
a reply arrived on March 11: they asked for both missing issues to be resent and that I should get them in 2-4 weeks;
Around the end of March an envelope arrived, containing just the January 2003 issue: no December 2002... I mailed them a new mail on April 9, stating I won't renew my subscription (and I really won't): no reply arrived, but...
a few days ago a new envelope arrived containing... guess this: February 2003 issue!!! Yes, it isn't a typo: February 2003!!! Now I have two copies of it, but no December 2002 issue. I sent another e-mail today.

I'm beginning asking myself if I am the only one that is experiencing such troubles or if it is a common problem for subscribers outside USA. Any Sys-Admin-subscriber monk here to confort me?

Ciao!
--bronto

The very nature of Perl to be like natural language--inconsistant and full of dwim and special cases--makes it impossible to know it all without simply memorizing the documentation (which is not complete or totally correct anyway).
--John M. Dlugosz

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Re: [OT] do you have any troubles with SysAdmin mag? by TVSET (Chaplain) on Apr 30, 2003 at 12:36 UTC
The company I'm working for subscribed to both Linux Journal and SysAdmin Magazine. And being far away of US and in the middle of nowhere (Cyprus), I can use Linux Journal instead of my NTP server to sync clocks. I wish I could say at least half of it for SysAdmin Mag. Update: Few minutes after finished this reply I got May 2003 issue of Linux Journal and April 2003 issue of SysAdmin Mag. :) Conspiracy? Leonid Mamtchenkov aka TVSET	[reply]
Re: [OT] do you have any troubles with SysAdmin mag? by zengargoyle (Deacon) on Apr 30, 2003 at 19:53 UTC
well, i keep throwing away their 'this is your last issue' notices. they keep sending me the magazine even though i've never subscribed. must be some evil marketing ploy.	[reply]
Re: [OT] do you have any troubles with SysAdmin mag? by jacques (Priest) on Apr 30, 2003 at 18:49 UTC
Personally, I would like to see more Perl coverage. In general, I think the mag is too thin and too full of ads. A Questions & Answers section for Perl would be nice. Just more Perl. Also, if you read the subscribers information in every issue, you will see that they sell your personal info (ie, address, etc). I've never been comfortable with such practices.	[reply]