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I was browsing my profile and was looking over my comments back to 2003. I found a rebuttal to a person that was really downing the the mag. Since nobody wrote a rebuttal at the time I was not going to sit there and let him trash us. The rebuttal is a bit of a review as well. My rating is based on how it is as of today. The rebuttal went like this:

Afcgbbob commented on 06 Jun 2003
Leonard just what is your problem? If you take a minute and look at the number of downloads you would see that over 17,000 people think we must be doing something right and that does not include those who subscribe to our ezine. Even the UK edition of Macworld thinks enough of our mag to include it on their monthly CDs. For two months you have bealched out your negativite atitude of ATPM. If you find it so bad, then why do you even go to our site to look at it. Because we are an online magazine, we can expand on material that print magazines lack the room for. I wrote the article about transfering LPs to CDs over a 3 month period. If not for the flexability of the online word, such coverage could not have been done. We have an excellent staff at ATPM who work very hard to do up to date articles. So next time you decide to get on your pedistal, try to back your words up. End of Line...

This is how I felt about ATPM back then and that is why it is killing me to what is happening to what has turned into more or less a news letter. Some of you say move on. But, what I see is when CompUSA died which I worked at. To understand how I feel you just need to go back in the archives and how polished the mag was. Read my column Whats Under the Hood and tell me if you agree that I was a poor writer. Michael only out is to attack my writing. It is hard to move on when an SOB him him cannot forget and allow me to write. Right now I have two great articles on how to raise the Mac from the grave and what to do when you Mac acts up and avoid wiping the drive. But he does not want any quality that can really help the MacUser. He would rather do a review on a laptop laptop carry case. That is the biggest joke I ever saw for a review. So go the F ahead Mr Anal M but, I will shed a tear when atpm shuts down for good due to your stupidity.

BTW- I still have all my contacts with the companies I worked with in the early years. In fact they sometimes send me stuff to look at and test to get feedback from me. Right now I am beta testing the next release of Hear by Prosoft. Can you even come close to what I have and could bring back to ATPM? But I guess you would rather scrape the walls for stuff to review. People read the archives and judge for yourself. End of Line... (again)

For a Mac user, I think it has the best price (free), I download it since my switch to the Mac and I do (and I'll do) it with a great pleasure !

ATPM, continue the good job, I enjoy what you do !

Some uninteresting guy's blog should not be released as a software update on MU. Yeah, I read ATPM back in the day, and it looks like "Bold and the Beautiful" territory: "it is later the same day...."

The content includes an article about how to use Disk Utility. Wow. And otherwise is mostly links. Welcome to 2004.

By all means continue to publish your little newsletter, but please stop pretending it's software. It may have been, back in the day when it was its own eReader. But it sure ain't now.

This is a rebuttal about the nature of ATPM. At no time was the mag designed for just the classic users. If you read what I wrote and go to the achieves and go back in time you will see what ATPM was all about. So read on...

I agree, but, if you look through the archives you would see how the mag has seriously degraded over the last 7 years. I know I wrote for them and I know the personality of the editor. This mag use to have 1,000s of DLs and look at it now. It is dying a slow death. They need writers but, I am sure some left due to the editor. I offered an Olive Branch to write for them again and he turned me down with an article on how I revived my Mac after it and I fell down a second story flight of stairs. Mac Users would have eaten it up and learned a few things that are not well known or known at all. He lets his ego run the mag and that is why there are such a low number of writers. I offered to bring in new blood to increase the number of articles. The goal of the mag was never about just Classic, it was about the whole gambit. Read the archives and you will see what I mean. My column was called Whats Under the Hood which was meant to be a po pouri of topics. But, due to his anal nature he hated it because he could not put my writing under specific classifications.

What ever the case, the mag has drastically changed from good to bad in amount of content. They even have to resort to reprinting articles from elsewhere. The mag needs new blood to bring it back to what it was in 2003-2005. End of Line...