[modeleng] Re: "Smoke Rings" - Comment

Pull out and RUN while you still can.

Al Messer

--- Terry Lane <tel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> Hi Rog,
> 
> Just what do they mean by that? That it will not be
> handled by ordinary
> newsagents?
> 
> What a strange mob that EU are - thank goodness they
> are on your side of the
> world & not mine.
> 
> 
> 
> > Hi All,
> >
> >    I discovered the other day that I was one of
> the people who could not
> > send to the list.   I discovered it when I tried
> to post the
> > following.   As I think that I can once again post
> to the list ... here
> > it is - I wonder what you all think?
> >
> >
> >
> >   I have been waiting to read some comments,  in
> this forum,  on the
> > opening paragraphs of the editorial ("Smoke
> Rings") in the latest      
> > Engineer (Issue No.: 4252).   In the absence of
> any views expressed I
> > thought I would start the ball rolling and see
> what others think.
> >
> >   For those who haven't read,  or received their
> M.E. yet,  the editor
> > is asking readers to contact their Member of
> Parliament,  objecting to
> > the possibility that the U.K. will adopt an EU
> ruling that means that
> > magazines like the M.E. will no longer be
> distributed through "small
> > retail outlets".
> >
> >   I have a couple of comments about this request:
> >
> >      1.   The editor suggests that the M.E. relies
> for its circulation
> > figures on the sales off the shelves in bookshops.
>   If other large
> > bookshops are the same as the branch of W.H.
> Smiths in Truro,  the      
> > Engineer and its companion magazine      
> Engineers' Workshop (and
> > similar magazines covering other minority
> interests) have not graced the
> > shelves of this establishment for several months. 
>  I used to pick up
> > the occasional issue of M.E.W. (and other
> magazines covering electronic
> > hobbies) - but no longer.   Thus the EU directive
> will have no effect on
> > this large outlet for the magazines - it has
> already been lost.
> >
> >      2.   The editor asks us to write to our M.Ps.
> asking them to oppose
> > the move to adopt the EU directive.   Nowhere in
> the description of this
> > possible bureaucratic move are any references
> given to the title,  or
> > any reference number,  for this EU ruling.   How
> can we expect our M.P.s
> > to know just what we are talking about when we
> cannot point them to the
> > correct piece of legislation?
> >
> >   What do others think about this editorial plea. 
>  Have others a
> > clearer view of the background to this possible
> situation.
> >
> >
> >      Cheers,
> >
> >
> >         Roger Mason,  in St. Agnes.
> >
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