[78-L] Exciting announcement [FWD]

[Michael Biel]

Mike Harkin wrote:
> Still trying to figure out how to bring up the advertising pages. 

The ads are there for all but the earliest years.  They explained in 
their search home page that the bound volumes they used had deleted the 
covers and the double-faced full pages of ads in the earlier years and 
that they are looking for copies with the missing pages.  But I don't 
think they are indexed, so you just have to look -- but this system does 
make it difficult to browse.

Steve Ramm reminded me that this is also a way to find Letters to the 
Editor we had published, when he forwarded to me a summary of a nasty 
letter that had been written about a parenthetical phrase in my original 
letter.  Gramophone had announced that they were no longer going to list 
deletions and I told them that SERIOUS collectors were more interested 
in the deletions list than new releases listings.  In passing I 
mentioned that I had 50,000 records and this guy discussed only that -- 
saying that nobody needed more than 400 records.  But nobody knows about 
the original subject under discussion because THE ENTIRE ISSUE THAT 
CONTAINED MY LETTER IS MISSING!!!!!!!!!!!!  His letter is in August 1993 
and mine should have been found in the June 1993 issue, but I bet 
Gramophone is too embarrassed to post my reasons why they don't 
understand SERIOUS collectors.  But why lose the entire issue just to 
suppress my letter???  All that is left is his repeating that I accused 
the magazine of not understanding  serious collectors but my reasoning 
is GONE! 

Mike Biel   mbiel at mbiel.com