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Originally Posted by Rodstar
In light of this conduct, when S&S endlessly try to take the moral highground on the issue of content - that they are 100% Australian - I am bothered.
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Fair comment. I guess it just depends what your needs are in regards to delivery times and local content .
If they could use foreign content at will like AS&T they would have the magazine out much more often on time I've no doubt, so I'm prepared to 'cut them some slack'. The task S&S have at hand is probably an unenviable one and a difficult one with such a small pool of potential authors.
Anyway, I enjoy both mags but I think the claim of wholly Australian written content by S&S( and yes the hair splitters can challenge that )is a perfectly fair and significant one to me and for all intents and purposes they acheive it. The amount of Australian based content in AS&T doesn't even come close but I know this is not important to some people.
I hope S&S can sort out delivery times but one wonders after 20 years, so I'll just enjoy it when it comes out. I just hope they can both forge a permanent existance: like 'Astronomy' and 'Sky and Telescope' diversity and competition in Astro publishing has to be good.