With this issue, the QHJ is now also being distributed via electronic mail. With the recent advent of a QL Internet mailing list, the QHJ can be distributed to QL users all around the world in a matter of minutes. Even QL users on CompuServe can recieve the QHJ via e-mail. The QHJ will still be published in print and mailed, but I can now expand the QHJ’s readership with little effort and no cost. Let’s hear it for e-mail!!
Guiseppe Zanetti and Mauricio Tavares are both collecting e-mail addresses of QL users on the Internet. So far the list has users from the US, England, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and New Zealand.
If you are interested in getting on the list you need to have a connectioin to the Internet. Most colleges have connections to the Internet, some computer companies have an Internet connection, and CompuServe has a mail gateway with the Internet. There are a number of Public Access Unix systems scattered around the US that provide Internet mail access from little or no cost. If interested, send me a note and I’ll send you the latest listing of these systems.
Recently the QHJ has been getting some pretty good coverage from two QL / Sinclair publications. The widest coverage comes from QL World. In their December 1991 issue there is a article on the QL in North America in which the QHJ and I are mentioned. Gee, it’s kind of neat to see someone else put your name in print.
A while back Peter Hale of the New England QL Group passed a letter mailed to him from Robin Stevenson, the writer of the QL World article, asking for info on QL groups in North America. As the Editor of the CATS User Group, I got a copy of the letter. Being the type to bend any body’s ear when it comes to talking about the QL, I sent Mr. Stevenson a note about CATS and the QHJ. See, it pays to take the time to respond to these kind of queries.
The other publication that mentioned the QHJ is Update, the last North American Sinclair magazine. Eliad P. Wannum wrote a short review of Sinclair Publications and the QHJ got a nice write up. Update covers all Sinclair computers, but seems to focus on the T/S 2068. This is mostly because the editor is a dedicated T/S 2068 user from way back. In fact the best looking pages in the magazine were produced on a T/S 2068 using Word Master.