Alex,

>Congratulations! I was happy to receive the issue this week! And happy to learn about your grandchild (which I didn't know about).

Thanks. He is, of course, the best grandchild in the whole world! (At least in my world). :-)

>I concur with Sergey's comments. The available content seemed fine to me. I believe, if you keep the fine content of FT 1.x and the fine contributors, but with a little more than 16 pages (maybe a regular 24?) it would be even better.

We have reversed the decline in page count as of the June issue, and will have at least 20 pages in each issue through the end of the year, when we will assess the possibilities of further expansion. To get the extra pages of content, we will be including a small amount of advertising space in the expanded page count, but actual content space will increase overall by several pages from the current issue, assuring at least one more major article per issue.

We believe that our readers will see this as a pretty good deal, since a page or two of advertising can result in two or three extra pages of content. FoxTalk has run advertisments in many issues over the years, so it's a not a new thing at all, just a necessary one to make additional articles possible.

Bottom line: readers get more content and everyone is happy (I hope). :-)