(Message tpj:1235) showproc tpj/1235 /home/mjd/bin/mailpager /home/mjd/MH-Mail/tpj/1235 Return-Path: mjd@plover.com Return-Path: Delivered-To: mjd-filter-deliver@plover.com Delivered-To: mjd-filter@plover.com Delivered-To: mjd@plover.com Message-ID: <19990831165621.4994.qmail@plover.com> To: orwant@media.mit.edu cc: mjd@plover.com Subject: Re: Perl 5 By Dummies In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 31 Aug 1999 12:39:49 EDT." <199908311639.MAA02286@ml.media.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 12:56:21 -0400 From: Mark-Jason Dominus > What I can certainly do is have the designer include another sentence > or two from you now explaining what happened. In bold. If I were > you, I'd blast them. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Note: `Perl 5 For Dummies' was published in 1997, and although it's still easy to find in stores, it is out of print. Why did I review an out-of-print book? Because when I called up IDG Books' Public Relation department to get the review copy, that's what they sent me. It seems that their PR department is as incompetent as their editing department. ---------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Note: `Perl 5 For Dummies' was published in 1997, and although it's still easy to find in stores, it is out of print. Why did I review an out-of-print book? I found myself asking the morons in the IDG public relations department that very question. Remember all those kids you went to high school with who didn't really seem to be good at anything and you wondered what would become of them? Well, some of them went into PR, and now they're sending out-of-print books to reviewers. ---------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Note: IDG BOOKS IS STAFFED BY INCOMPETENTS FROM TOP TO BOTTOM. THEY MAY BE POTTY TRAINED BUT IF YOU ASK THEM TO DO ANYTHING COMPLICATED LIKE MAILING OUT A REVIEW COPY OF A BOOK YOU'D BETTER EXPECT THEM TO FUCK IT UP IN THE MOST OBVIOUS WAY. YOU'D THINK THAT IF YOU ASKED THEM FOR A REVIEW COPY THAT THEY WOULD SEND YOU THE MOST RECENT EDITION, WOULDN'T YOU? AND YET WHEN I DID THAT I GOT A COPY OF AN EDITION THAT HAS BEEN OUT OF PRINT SINCE 1998, AND SO I WASTED HOURS OF MY TIME REVIEWING A BOOK THAT IS NO LONGER PUBLISHED. DIE, DIE, DIE, YOU STUPID ASSHOLES. ---------------------------------------------------------------- If none of these are suitable please let me know what you would prefer. IDG is sending another book. It should arrive tomorrow.