Re: 'Australian Railway Enthusiast'

[Rod Gayford <rjaygee@smartchat.net.au>]

I agree with Lineman. What do Forster Family Inc want for their miserable $4.95
per issue. Don't buy it if you do not like it. Those that contribute the least
to society these days seem to have the most criticisms. Go out and start a mag
yourself if you can do better.
Cheers
RJG

Lineman wrote:

> Forster Family Inc <noelmel@wantree.com.au> wrote in message
> 7r88dt$1hg$1@centipede.wantree.com.au">news:7r88dt$1hg$1@centipede.wantree.com.au...
> > Some time has elapsed since I posted a message of complaint about the
> > standard of this 'magazine'.
> > I would expected some response from either the editorial staff or the ARE
> > board members but alas and alack no answer came the stern reply. Obviously
> > they are still steaming along in the eighties.
> > The only responses came from senior ( I mean that in the nicest possible
> way
> > because at 47 I must also be considered 'senior') members of the railfan
> > fraternity. I have been a member of the ARE since 1968 and come December I
> > must consider my options on renewal and having 4 less magazines a year may
> > free up some of my burgeoning bookshelf space.
> > I think our next step is convey a letter of protest to the 'editor' about
> > the standard of the 'magazine' by the eighties method i.e. in a letter
> with
> > a stamp on it!
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > NMF
> >
> > Why so much fuss for a magazine that costs $4.95 a 1/4 ?
> So the editor let the mail page run on abit,obviously there where
> conflicting opinions on what speed the fastest steam loco could do,etc
> etc,and he was giving his subscribers a chance to debate the issue.
> Don't forget folks that just cause we all sit around here pumping our gums
> does not mean the whole world is doing it the same way.[Yet]
> And why get upset because the magazine does not have an e-mail address,maybe
> the can not afford it seeing as its the members subs pay for the whole set
> up.If you feel you have a valid criticism put it in an envelope addressed to
> the editor stick a 45 cent stamp on it and post it to him ala David Langley
> to Newsrail.
> They don't run all that many well paying fan trips these days[free loading
> motor caders saw to that] so I would imagine the whole set up is fairly shoe
> string affair.
> And yes being a volunteer does not get any easier,when your expected to
> uphold such high professional standards and still have a life away from your
> hobby.
>
> Lineman