Tim wrote:
On May 3, 7:55 am, Larry Weiss wrote:
end.user wrote:
Powerboat Reports, a boating equipment 'consumer reports' like publication,
has printed its last issue (May 07).
Too bad. It was an important publication - the only boating publication
that I am aware of that told the truth.

After being a subscriber for many years I decided not to renew my
subscription last year.

I don't know the actual reason they've decided to close, but if it is
due to declining circulation then I would speculate that they hurt
themselves very badly with their ridiculously over zealous subscriber
renewal campaigns (probably managed not by them but by a subscription
company they hired). From the moment one renewed their subscription,
subscribers would immediately be deluged with obnoxious and endless
reminders to renew yet again. Although it was probably less frequent
than I imagine, the renewal notices were so annoying that it seemed to
me like they came weekly or even every few days. My complaints to
Powerboat Reports about this fell on deaf ears. I found the renewal
notices so obnoxious and annoying that I decided not to renew. So, I
believe, did a significant portion of their subscriber base. Funny, but
once my subscription ran out, so did the renewal notices - at the time
when they probably would have actually done some good.

Good reporting - bad marketing. Too bad.

Larry Weiss
"...Ever After!"

ps: This coming from me - famous for creating one of the most
notoriously obnoxious yet immensely successful advertising campaigns in
the history of radio and television. That's how bad the Powerboat
Reports renewal campaign was.

Bass Player Magazine has decided to call it quits too. too much
publication and printing costs, forcing higher subscription rates,
with fewer subscribers.

The electronic media is doing them in.


It's not just that. More and more of society is becoming post-literate;
it just doesn't read much at all, not just printed materials. And
interests change. I only read two fishing magazines these days,
Sal****er Sportsman and Florida Sportsman, the latter because it is
iconoclastic. I subscribe to BOATING magazine, but rarely read it. Most
of the boats it covers are the same damned cookie-cutter overdone
plastic monstrosities that do not interest me. I do look at the
occasional issues of Passagemaker, but that's usually at a bookstore at
a mall to which my wife has dragged me.

I still read the paper editions of the NYT, WashPost and WSJ daily, but
I only subscribe to one political rag magazine these days, the NATION. I
used to read a lot of political magazines.

I do read National Geo, and also its travel magazine.

I just finished reading the manual on my new table saw, and I'm now
almost ready to start removing my fingers while installing my new
kitchenette, as soon as the damned electrician finishes up.

"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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snip...
I just finished reading the manual on my new table saw, and I'm now
almost ready to start removing my fingers while installing my new
kitchenette, as soon as the damned electrician finishes up.


Don't give in to temptation and remove that 'blade guard'

Don White wrote:
"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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snip...
I just finished reading the manual on my new table saw, and I'm now
almost ready to start removing my fingers while installing my new
kitchenette, as soon as the damned electrician finishes up.


Don't give in to temptation and remove that 'blade guard'




Blade guard? Which piece is that?

"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Don White wrote:
"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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snip...
I just finished reading the manual on my new table saw, and I'm now
almost ready to start removing my fingers while installing my new
kitchenette, as soon as the damned electrician finishes up.


Don't give in to temptation and remove that 'blade guard'


Blade guard? Which piece is that?

The plastic contraption that just might save those fingers. Better yet,
buy/make a good 'pusher tool'.

Don White wrote:
"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Don White wrote:
"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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snip...
I just finished reading the manual on my new table saw, and I'm now
almost ready to start removing my fingers while installing my new
kitchenette, as soon as the damned electrician finishes up.

Don't give in to temptation and remove that 'blade guard'

Blade guard? Which piece is that?

The plastic contraption that just might save those fingers. Better yet,
buy/make a good 'pusher tool'.




Perhaps I should hire a local, slow-witted retiree...think Herring might
volunteer?

On Thu, 03 May 2007 12:03:32 -0400, Harry Krause
wrote:

Don White wrote:
"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Don White wrote:
"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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snip...
I just finished reading the manual on my new table saw, and I'm now
almost ready to start removing my fingers while installing my new
kitchenette, as soon as the damned electrician finishes up.

Don't give in to temptation and remove that 'blade guard'

Blade guard? Which piece is that?

The plastic contraption that just might save those fingers. Better yet,
buy/make a good 'pusher tool'.




Perhaps I should hire a local, slow-witted retiree...think Herring might
volunteer?

Harry, how could I possibly be slow-witted and hold you in such high
esteem? You are just too neat for words!

"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Don White wrote:
"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Don White wrote:
"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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snip...
I just finished reading the manual on my new table saw, and I'm now
almost ready to start removing my fingers while installing my new
kitchenette, as soon as the damned electrician finishes up.

Don't give in to temptation and remove that 'blade guard'

Blade guard? Which piece is that?

The plastic contraption that just might save those fingers. Better yet,
buy/make a good 'pusher tool'.


Perhaps I should hire a local, slow-witted retiree...think Herring might
volunteer?

Take out life insurance on him, if he does.

Don White wrote:
"Harry Krause" wrote in message
...
Don White wrote:
"Harry Krause" wrote in message
. ..
Don White wrote:
"Harry Krause" wrote in message
. ..
snip...
I just finished reading the manual on my new table saw, and I'm now
almost ready to start removing my fingers while installing my new
kitchenette, as soon as the damned electrician finishes up.
Don't give in to temptation and remove that 'blade guard'
Blade guard? Which piece is that?
The plastic contraption that just might save those fingers. Better yet,
buy/make a good 'pusher tool'.

Perhaps I should hire a local, slow-witted retiree...think Herring might
volunteer?

Take out life insurance on him, if he does.



Do you chase other people, in other groups, like a damn puppy too?

On May 3, 12:03 pm, Harry Krause wrote:


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Them things aren't installed yet?

On 3 May 2007 09:56:09 -0700, wrote:

On May 3, 12:03 pm, Harry Krause wrote:


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Them things aren't installed yet?

I'm waiting to see what use a table saw was in the installation of a bunch
of prefabricated cabinets.