COMMENT ⊗   VALID 00002 PAGES
C REC  PAGE   DESCRIPTION
C00001 00001
C00002 00002	\\M1BASL30\M2BASB30\M3NGR25\M4NGR20\M6METM\M7METS
C00004 ENDMK
C⊗;
\\M1BASL30;\M2BASB30;\M3NGR25;\M4NGR20;\M6METM;\M7METS;
\F1\CNovember 30,1979








An open letter to lost magazine and newspaper subscriptions:








Dear People:

\JWhile I worked for semi-reputable corporations (Hewlett-Packard and
Signetics), it seemed I could do no wrong. You blessed me with your
publications. However, now as a "start-up" company --whose existence
is due in part to the information I gleaned from your pages-- I have
become a leper. I went into business to be able to exert \F2more\F1
influence on the market place; people, such as myself,
do  not make such moves for a lark.
It would therefore seem to me that  publications that extoll their readers
to "keep up" by reading their offerings, and whose other major 
reason for existence is to attract buyers for their advertised products, 
would 
at least give beginning companies the benefit of the doubt.
\.
\←L\→S\←R\-L\/'2;\+L\→L

Yours sincerely,



John R. Allen, Founder
\F6T\F7HE \F6L\F7ISP \F6C\F7OMPANY\F1
18215 Bayview Dr.
Los Gatos Ca, 95030

\←S\→L