CurtC said:
I found the editorial - I don't see anything controversial there. I don't see any links to mail to the editor, so I don't know what they were saying. Can you give a hint?
It's mostly good. Is that a good thing? Not sure.
Our editor, Barry Williams says....
> Modesty precludes I mention the email from a cheerful Victorian
> subscriber that had "Bloody Brilliant" in very big type, but in general
> they were along the lines of "nice editorial" as expressed by the
> editor of another magazine (no, not Creation Ex Nihilo - I haven't
> heard a word from them). I greatly appreciated a letter for
> publication from a subscriber who said it was "a valuable lesson on how
> Skeptics should deal with their aversion to religion. ... measured,
> thoughtful and dispassionate..." I will risk cries of "Bighead" and
> publish it in the next issue.
>
> But the big thrill was not so much that people liked what I wrote in
> this instance, but that enough of them (20-30 so far) took the time to
> ring or write to express their feelings about the issues we discuss in
> the Skeptic and how much it means to them as a voice of sanity in a
> sometimes mad world. We regularly get feedback from subscribers,
> overwhelmingly positive, and often with words like "keep up the good
> work" or "thanks for a great mag" or the like written on their
> renewals, which is deeply satisfying for an editor to hear. It makes
> you feel that you are doing something worthwhile.
>
> The most touching correspondence I received in the past couple of weeks
> came in a note from a lady who requested that her "darling husband" be
> removed from our mailing list as he had moved "so deeply into
> Altzheimers that he can no longer read his beloved Skeptic". That
> caused a certain dampness in the eyesockets in the editorial suite.
