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Dear Readers:
      Thanks for all the kind words. We assume that by now you've received at least the July, and possibly the August issues of MIND. We're sorry that there has been such confusing and sometimes contradictory communication about the change of publisher for Microsoft Interactive Developer. To recap, MIND changed publishers as of the July 1998 issue and is now published by Miller Freeman, Inc. The editorial content is still supervised here at Microsoft, as it has been since our first issue. Our roster of writers contains the same mixture of Microsoft experts and real-world professionals as always. If you subscribed to MIND prior to May 1998, you will continue to receive MIND for however long you paid for. You will also receive a new publication,Web Builder, from Fawcette Technical Publications, our previous publisher. If you have missed any recent issues, or subscribed after April 1998, you should contact the Miller Freeman customer service department at 415-356-3459 to be sure you continue to get MIND.
      Thanks again for all the support, and rest assured we have no intention of letting you lose your MIND!
—The Editors
Greetings,
       Needless to say I was shocked today when I received my issue of Web Builder with a note saying that my subscription to MIND had been "morphed" into a Web Builder subscription! I need my MIND (no pun intended)!!! For over one year now, I have enjoyed and always look forward to receiving my MIND issue. The articles hit the spot and every issue has given me new tricks, tips, and information, which I use on a daily basis as a Web Builder and developer.
      PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE tell me I can continue to receive MIND!
— Matt K.

I want my MIND back!
      A MIND is a terrible thing to lose, especially when someone tries to replace it with Web Builder. Please take this as my official notice that I do NOT want Web Builder... I want my MIND back!

—Art S.

Web Builder problem
      Why in the world if I had subscribed to MIND as published at Fawcette would Fawcette think that I would want Web Builder if I had not even subscribed to it in the first place. Because I had subscribed to a magazine that they used to publish? Something seems a little out of whack here!!!

— Will B.

HELP!!!
      What the hell happened? I'm having withdrawals! Someone help me get my MIND subscription back... PLEASE!!
—Rob H.

MIND/Web Builder
      Well, this is a change, and a shock. I am one of those people who received Web Builder, and frankly am not interested, and I'd like to keep receiving MIND and NOT Web Builder. How can this be arranged?

—Jeff G.

Continue my MIND subscription
      With regards to the MIND subscription I paid for, please continue it. I have not received the July issue of MIND. Instead I received a magazine called Web Builder. The magazine I want and paid for is MIND, not Web Builder. Please send me the July issue of MIND and continue sending me MIND.
— Robert W.

Slammed into Web Builder
      My subscription expired in June 98. I was never told about a new publisher when I called to renew my MIND subscription. I received instead a subscription to Web Builder and have not received a MIND since May. Now I have a subscription to a mag I don't want and have missed probably several MINDs.
—Dan T.

Dan:
      Contact the Miller Freeman customer service department for MIND at 415-356-3459 and they should be able to straighten this out for you.

Hijacked
      I received a copy of Web Builder but as yet have not received (6/19/98) my July MIND mag. Please keep MIND coming my way! I get a lot of tech mags and rate MIND as one of the tops... Keep up the good work.
—Steve D.

We welcome your questions and comments. Send correspondence to mindmag@microsoft.com, or to Letters, c/o Microsoft Interactive Developer, 825 Eighth Avenue, 18th Floor, New York, NY 10019. Letters may be edited. All letters and accompanying materials become the property of MIND and will not be returned.


From the August 1998 issue of Microsoft Interactive Developer.