Re: PAM

[Dave Gomberg <gomberg@wcf.com>]

My perspective on these issues is this:

I believe Herlong (like any other long-term hard worker) has his enemies in
ACA.  And I have no doubt that he may have had past problems in assembling
content.  And that these may have made issues appear late (as they have
with Neil in the past when he couldn't get good content and had to delay
publication).

That said and agreed, I do not see any relevance of this to PAM (Planted
Aquaria Magazine).  Herlong will be in charge of production and
advertising, not editorial content.   I am very pleased with how BB looks
(except the last two issues where they decided to cut costs and in my
opinion severely compromised the appearance).

The person who says where the content comes from and is it good enough and
are we ready is me (with Neil's help if he wishes).  If the AGA board feels
I am doing it wrong they should tell me so, and wrong how, and how they
want it done instead.  We may agree about this or we may disagree and
discuss it further.   And in the end the PAM board will be the final
arbiter.  If AGA has a majority of PAM stock, it will run the PAM board
(subject to minority stockholder rights, if applicable).  

Now I may not be able to do much better than Herlong has, but I have one
trump card.   We pay our authors.  So we can fairly ask them to put out
quality stuff on time.  And if needed, we can pay from the author money for
editing (if the submission has terrible quality).

Now Herlong will have NOTHING TO SAY about what goes into PAM.  So I don't
think his views on collecting trips are very relevant.    

If this does not tell you what you needed to know please ask more.   Any
anyone posting on the subject of PAM, please be sure to copy me.    Thanks.
   Dave

At 09:42 AM 9/14/1999 -0400, you wrote:
>Okay everybody,
>
>       It is time to start the discussion about Gomberg's proposal. Please copy
>him on all messages about this subject and keep those messages to  this
>one subject.
>
>       Dave G, I've heard that the ACA is not happy with the BB. It seems to be
>going away from the hobby, breeding subjects and going to collecting
>trips, more like the professional pubs. It has also been reported that
>people in the hobby are recommending other magazines in preferrance to
>BB. Also there are reports of a long delay without any issues and then
>three appearing within a short time. It has also been said that Herlong
>is in danger of being replaced as editor of BB.
>
>       What is your perspective here?
>
>                                       Bob Cashin
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