>HI Jos
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>> Personally I dont think people normally respond to articles they have read in any magazine unless, as you say, they feel very strongly about it - and then usually only if they disagree with the it.
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>That's certainly true :)
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>>As an avid reader of a wide variety of books and magazines I have never sent an email to the authors. I think most readers simply vote with their wallets and buy/not buy the publication as they feel appropiate - which is a direct expression of the level of appreciation for the editorial content.
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>In some ways that is the problem though. If you either like, or don't like, something it is always helpful to the authors to know - after all if you hate what I write, just not buying the magazine won't change that (though of course it may end up with the magazine going broke and then I'd have no forum).
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>But if you told me that unless I changed my ways you would stop buying the magazine (actually, thinking about, it I'd probably say 'ah well, can't please everyone' - or words to that effect). But of course if 100 people told me the same thing then I'd have to think about what I am saying and how I am saying it.
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>>What always surprises me more is the total apathy when people give no feedback on freeware as PaulM says in Message #847466.
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>Again, unless they don't like it for some reason.
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>>Long live VFP !
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>HEar! Hear!


Well, Andy, you and Marcia get my vote :)

Regards