About The Diplomatic Pouch
Manus Hand, Publisher
Welcome Back to The Pouch!
Well, here we are again. You will find (maybe you already have) that this
second
issue is quite a bit different from the first. This was forecast and expected,
and I discuss this in full in the Pouch
Deposits column in this issue. New readers especially, check out the
always-up-to-date
About The Pouch page for all the administrivia
you could ever hope to read.
Reading The Pouch
One of the questions most frequently asked about the first issue of The Pouch
concerned which different methods can be employed to read the magazine. After
going around and around, I've decided the best and only thing I can do is to
declare once and for all that The Diplomatic Pouch is a magazine for the
Web and only the Web. Additionally, it is written for the Netscape browser;
this magazine contains Netscape-specific tags and is best viewed with Netscape.
If you don't have the Netscape Navigator, you can download it for free from
this site here:
http://www.netscape.com.
I am aware that this leaves a lot of people out in the cold. These people have
rightfully clamored for a Postscript version which can be emailed to them and
printed out by them, or for a paper copy of the magazine. My own time is such
that I was unable to comply with this request, but I welcomed volunteers. I
got two, and both of them separately had to back out (I can't blame them) when
they found that a printed copy of the first issue of DP ran to 200 pages. I am
still willing to entertain volunteers to print DP articles to Postscript files
from out of Netscape and bring our paper brethren into the readership. Are you
the one?
Name Dropping
Simon Szykman deserves special mention here for his many forays above
and beyond the call of duty. In addition to his prolific and welcome
contributions
to the magazine, Simon has been my dependable proof-reader, broken-link
catcher, 'zine publicizer, and all around good fellow
[editor's note: "good guy"
was changed to "good fellow" in deference to U.K. readership]. In fact, it
looks like I can continue to count on him for all of this. He's kind of my
co-publisher. (Yes, this clinches it: he's beyond hope.)
Welcome back!
Manus Hand
Your Publisher
(manus@manushand.com)