@Grumb...Glad to be of help!
@mickc22...Thanks, mate! I do my best.
@ebonbuddha...Please read on!
This is what Jamie has to say (as a sort of informal press-release). It\'s a little long but it covers all areas, so please read it through...
\"Hi guys,
Apologies for the delays and confusion. Issue 15 was much later than planned; for the last three issues or so we\'ve been running about two weeks late this was due to attending Gencon in August and subsequent printing problems which combined to push our street date back - we were still releasing in the correct month albeit at the end rather than in the middle. We attempted to combat this by releasing issue 15 as a combined December/January issue. What this meant (in the best laid plans) was that by combining two issues we SHOULD have reigned our release dates back in and 15 SHOULD have hit the shelves in the middle of the month - something we proudly announced ahead of time, secure in our genius.
However on the weekend that we were supposed to be laying out the magazine in preparation for sending to the printers on the Monday we discovered that our FTP site had been the subject of several hacking attempts and that we had contracted a virus. 48 hours of pc maintenance meant that we were late in laying out and prepping the files for the printer (we couldn\'t risk infecting them, imagine how popular we\'d have been) and missed our print spot. What all of this means is that although the magazine was technically on time (at least it was released at the same time as the previous three issues) it WAS actually late considering our announcement and our normal street date of the 15th of the month.
In addition to this while combating the virus our emails were corrupted back to the middle of December. Mark, Rachel having left us to return to university, then had to log on to our secure server and manually print off every order from January so that we could send everything out (Harbingers of the Hunt included), causing the unacceptable delay that some of you have been suffering and a distinct lack of replies to justifiably irate emails.
All I can do is apologize for this series of events. Rachel leaving us was something we knew was going to happen for some time, what we didn\'t know was just how hard this would hit us (and how much Rachel took care of). We are a small team that has been made significantly smaller and with the setbacks we\'ve had we\'ve found ourselves struggling to play catch up.
Please rest assured we are very secure, just under-staffed, something that Mark is turning his attention to and which will hopefully be rectified within the next week or so.
Once again I apologise for any inconvenience and dissatisfaction.
Jamie. \"
In the unlikely event that anyone has a problem that Jamie hasn\'t covered, I\'d be happy to to recieve a PM about it.
Cheers,
Dave.