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In several of the recent posts about the deterioration of the technical
magazines, people have been asking, basically, what can be done for
our type of user - the advanced, literate, technical programmers.

Well, I do have a suggestion. For quite a few years now, Science Fiction
fans have been doing "fanzines", which are basically magazines, written,
published, and distributed at cost by the fans who read them. They do
tend to be much less "pretty", or "professional", but the material inside
can be extremely good, if the contributors care about the 'zine.

I see no reason why a similar idea could not be applied to a programmers
magazine. It would be a lot of work for the people involved, but if 
people were actually willing to contribute articles and code, it could
certainly work. And, if this idea is to be tried, the Usenet is a good
place to start it. Code can be made available by uucp, so that the
readers wouldn't have to type it, and distribution can be done electronically, 
so that the costs would be covered by the reader, for transmission time.

I am a third year Computer Science student, so my level is not up
to that of many of you out there. But I am willing to try to organize/
edit such a beast, if there is sufficient interest, and there are people
willing to help.

If you are interested in such a monster, as a reader, a contributor,
or an editor, please send me email. My addresses are:

   mccarrol@topaz.rutgers.edu (Internet, and Usenet)
   <backbone>!rutgers!topaz!mccarrol (Old style Usenet)

           -Mark C. Carroll
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