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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!uknet!axion!micromuse!godot!dj From: dj@godot.co.uk (DJ Walker-Morgan) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: UNIGRAM's article on the USL-BSDI suit Message-ID: <BsIrvv.98@micromuse.co.uk> Date: 5 Aug 92 16:45:31 GMT References: <hanson.712947328@pogo> Sender: news@micromuse.co.uk Reply-To: dj@godot.co.uk Organization: MicroMuse - The SPARC dudes Lines: 31 Nntp-Posting-Host: godot In article 712947328@pogo, hanson@pogo.fnal.gov (Steve Hanson) writes: >In <BZS.92Aug3181117@ussr.std.com> bzs@ussr.std.com (Barry Shein) writes: > > >>I have to admit I've never heard of Unigram either, and it seems like >>Has anyone on this list ever seen this pub? Just a reality-check. > >Yeah, I've seen sample issues at trade shows. As I remember it is the >typical industry newsletter - a few pages long, full of "inside" news, >incredibly overpriced. Mostly what I remember about seeing it is that >I almost fainted when I saw the subscription price, but on the other >hand I also publish a UNIX newsletter and I lose money hand over fist, >so they probably know what they're doing. Unigram is a weekly newsletter, derived from the same source as Computergram, the daily newletter. It's my first read in the morning and quite honestly it would be the first subscription I'd ensure at any company I worked for.... Even allowing for the rumours that are reprinted, there's always a lot of good hard information from detailing IBM announcements to who's doing deals with whom... And they always try to finish on a small "funny" item.... --- ============================================================================ dj@micromuse.co.uk |"In a perfect world we'd all sing in tune Voice +44-71-352-7774 | but this is reality so give some room" Fax +44-71-351-7834 | (Sir) William Bragg ------------------------+--------------------------------------------------- Non-standard Disclaimer : "I didn't do it, it wasn't me, I wasn't there"