On Wed, January 14, 2009 8:23 pm, Rony said:
Atanu Datta wrote:
So was the second msg also published in the letters' section? If we have missed it, shame on us... looks like a very positive feedback to me at least. Or was this one truncated? The essence of the msg is basically the following part which talks about VirtualBox: "It would be more simpler to simply install virtualbox from your repos and boot the ISOs live into the virtual window. A cheaper, easier and environment friendly way to explore different desktop environments, instead of burning 7 CDs." I fail to find anything negative you've said that would hurt our image at all.
The first sentence mentions "It appears that Linux for You has finally heeded to complaints and......." This indicates a problem existed. My earlier mails to the list have also been critical of LFY's media quality, to the extent that I had once suggested boycotting buying LFY.
The first sentence is what makes it a positive feedback -- meaning something has changed for better according to a reader. The additional virtual box bit gives others somewhat useful info.
Here is my message dated Tuesday 15 January 2008 "We will have to send it to them every month. Who has time to do all this. They have problems in two areas. Quality of the media itself and its packaging inside the magazine that can be tampered with. A mass boycott will work better than mass mailing. "
None of this was ever printed.
Like I said, maybe we have missed it. You can simultaneously mail the content to us also. It certainly wouldn't take too much of your time. Think about it this way: if we don't respond to your complaint, then it gives you more *masalaa* to add to your mails here. So, it's a win-win for you anyhow.
And frankly, if you have such reservations on reproducing your feedback from the mailing lists, then we won't do it. Savvy?
Rony, we welcome any feedback where ever there's a scope of improvement. In fact, you can write to us directly at lfyedit[AT]efyindia[DOT]com if you have any grievances as well. If you only talk about it in mailing lists, changes are (note that I said, chances are) our editorial may miss it. It's a very small team, and we're are buried by whole lot of assignments.
The mails were not addressed to LFY as they were already aware of their problems. Anyway hopefully things will improve in future.
Hmmm...
Best, Atanu