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echo: cooking
to: RUTH HANSCHKA
from: NANCY BACKUS
date: 2019-09-27 23:48:00
subject: Re: fish was: Shrimp

-=> Quoting Ruth Hanschka to Nancy Backus on 09-24-19  23:59 <=-

 >  > Ah, so now you'll have to go farther to deal with the 
 >  > problems...  Oh, and to get the great service... ;)
 >  RH> Or just shop elsewhere and pay half.
 > That works, too...  ;)
 >  
 RH> I like seeing those 60% and higher "savings" totals.  
 
True, those are a nice carrot... ;)

 >  > are exposed to various authors through our subscription to 
 >  > Analog Science Fiction and Fact...
 >  RH> I used to get Isaac Asimov, the magazine.  Subscribed for 
 >  RH> years.  It was always interesting. F&SF too.
 > All three are now Dell Magazines...  We've bought the occasional
 > Asimov's and F&SF over the years, but only subscribe to Analog...
 > 
 RH> Oddly, science fiction folks are the ones who seem to be loyal to 
 RH> dead tree magazines.  We like to reread things I guess, in a digital 
 RH> magazines don't allow.

Yup... and keep the magazines for forever... How else could we show that
whatever new technology there is was predicted so many years ago by some
astute SF writer or other...  :)

ttyl      neb

... I am positive that a definite maybe is probably in order.

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