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Posted by vsmith on Wednesday, November 12, 2008 5:48 PM

All this over simply mispelling someones name?

Sheesh if I counted all the times I misspelled something...Whistling

   Have fun with your trains

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Posted by Midnight Railroader on Wednesday, November 12, 2008 5:46 PM

ARTHILL

MR you may have opened a larger can of worms than you wanted, or maybe not. Taking a public pot shot at a popular person can be misunderstood as mean spirited, or maybe not misunderstood. And you are not even a subscriber to the magazine.

..any more. I subscribed for over 30 years, which ought to stand for something.

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Posted by Teditor on Wednesday, November 12, 2008 5:18 PM

Actually didn't realise, but Midnight Railroader is using the initials of the magazine he is bagging, time for a new identity.

Teditor. 

Teditor

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Posted by ARTHILL on Wednesday, November 12, 2008 5:10 PM

MR you may have opened a larger can of worms than you wanted, or maybe not. Taking a public pot shot at a popular person can be misunderstood as mean spirited, or maybe not misunderstood. And you are not even a subscriber to the magazine.

I suggest you post some pics of your layout, share some ideas on how to make better trees and leave the magazine editing to those who publish it and subscribe to it.

If you think you have it right, your standards are too low. my photos http://s12.photobucket.com/albums/a235/ARTHILL/ Art
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Posted by Teditor on Wednesday, November 12, 2008 5:03 PM

Does this mean Andy Sper - Spor - whatever is human?

Typo's are always easy to find by critics after the fact, as a simple club magazine editor, believe me, I know, and I am only on a club level!

Teditor. 

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Posted by selector on Wednesday, November 12, 2008 4:45 PM

Midnight, your note is not addressed to me, but you have posted it in a public forum.  If I were Andy, I'd be quite put out by your approach, making it a public disapproval rather than contacting him privately.

Seems a lot like posturing to me.   I say this in the same public forum that you have used, and just as publicly, to let you know how I feel about your method.  Hopefully I have made my point?

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Posted by Midnight Railroader on Wednesday, November 12, 2008 2:34 PM

I just picked up a copy of the December MR. I canceled my subscription last year because I felt the magazine's quality had slipped and that it had become "dumbed down," but, from time to time, I check to see if the situation's been rectified.

Given that a major contributor this hobby's name was misspelled "Chronkite," and by a long-time editor, no less, I see this is not the case.

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