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<p style="color: #A0A0A8;">On Tuesday, September 13, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Marty Alchin wrote:</p>
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<span><div><div>First, thanks for taking the time to answer thoroughly. I realize I<br>could've come across as antagonistic, so I'm glad you realized I just<br>wanted some more information. I'm just wary about whether a magazine<br>can really sustain itself these days, but I'm definitely willing to<br>help find out.<br><br>I'm at least pleased to hear that you don't have expectations for<br>being successful in a traditional, commercial sense because I think an<br>attitude like that will help ensure it doesn't fall apart over silly<br>things. However, that also makes it more of a labor of love, which has<br>its own pitfalls, as any open source developer will freely admit.<br></div></div></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Well, maybe that deserves a tad bit of clarification: I *do* expect it to be commercially successful, because I *don't* plan for it to follow most of what we think of as 'traditional' in the context of magazines in general. </div><blockquote type="cite" style="border-left-style:solid;border-width:1px;margin-left:0px;padding-left:10px;"><span><div><div>So consider me on board so far, and I'll be interested to see how this<br>shapes up and where I can be of help.<br></div></div></span></blockquote><div>Thanks, Marty - I should have the domain set up with a proper mailing list at some point in the next few weeks (hopefully in the next *1* week, but I can't commit to that). I'll shoot emails to everyone so they can explicitly opt-in at that time. </div><div><br></div><div>brian</div><blockquote type="cite" style="border-left-style:solid;border-width:1px;margin-left:0px;padding-left:10px;"><span><div><div><br>-Marty<br></div></div></span>
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