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- From: bjones@denitqm.uswest.com (Brent Jones)
- Subject: Rejection Slips
- Message-ID: <bjones-161292084227@130.13.26.216>
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- Organization: U S WEST Information Technologies
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 16:06:45 GMT
- Lines: 33
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- In article <1992Dec16.150526.1@ducvax.auburn.edu> wkeown@ducvax.auburn.edu
- writes:
- >
- >
- >How about this one?
- >I fugure he was having a bad day, and I won't even say what magazine
- >sent me this (I have it hanging on my wall).
- >
- >
- > I can almost see why you would waste your time by writing
- > this, but I cannot even comprehend why you would waste mine,
- > by sending it to me.
- >
- > sincerely,
- > [sig deleted]
- >
- >Hand written too.
-
- I don't think you need to maintain the anonymity of someone who wrote a
- rejection letter like this--apparently a few editors out there think that
- they can insult and degrade the works of others with impunity.
-
- Given that the writer has sent a clean, properly formatted manuscript to an
- appropriate journal or magazine, and that the writer has done the research
- and *knows* the magazine publishes the style of writing he or she produces,
- there is no excuse for a magazine that accepts unsolicited submissions
- to insult a writer's efforts in this way.
-
- --
- Brent Jones, Lead Tech. Editor, U S WEST IT, bjones@denitqm.uswest.com
- "of beautiful weeds that cannot hide from the farmer and helplessly have
- to watch the shadow of his simian stoop leave mangled flowers in its wake,
- as the monstrous darkness approaches."--V. Nabokov _Signs and Symbols_
-