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I am not surprised.?ÿ The magazine had gone so heavy commercial I stopped reading it many years ago.?ÿ It is too bad as there was a time I looked forward to reading it.
Those days are long gone and charging to read their commercial advertisements didn't help much.
Same for PS Magazine which leaves only The American Surveyor which was the best of the three anyway.
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It's been a long time coming. I gave up on PoB years ago. Once upon a time I read them all cover to cover, but now the print versions that still come to me (even though I quit renewing the subscriptions) go straight to the recycle bin. The content has been mostly irrelevant to my work for years.
Just read my email from them. They lost their way. But WOW was their website a great trip a few years ago.
Learned a lot and managed to pass a few things along.
I became Paul in PA because back then there were a few too many Pauls on the website.
Still Paul in PA
I used to enjoy reading POB.?ÿ When I switched to digital delivery a while back, I always forgot about it and didn't read it much anymore.
Used to look forward to it arriving.?ÿ Then they stopped addressing the kind of surveying we were doing as if we no longer existed.?ÿ I, for one, will not miss the magazine they were putting out currently.
Read it cover to cover when I first started surveying in 1989. I learned so much... wrote papers in college citing POB as a source... it was cool to be quoted in it 15 years or so ago... met many of the folks on this site through the POB message board, and like others migrated my username from there to this site.
Some nostalgia, but also haven't read it in like 10 years so won't miss it.
Can't remember the last time I read it. Or any of it's competitors...maybe eight years or so ago.?ÿ ?ÿ
Good magazine at one time, and the advertisement for my COGO in BASIC software was a big help to me in selling the product. I don't remember the last time I read POB but it has been years.
It seems to me that my interest in reading the magazines started to wane just about the same time I hooked up with the original RPLS.com message board. Hmmmm, I wonder if there is a connection? When they stopped sending out printed issues (at my request) I soon forgot they existed.
I am pretty sure that the beginning of the end for POB was when there appeared a picture of "Bingy" going commando at the top of a slope or on a large rock with his "Hub Bags" clearly visible in the photo from below. Cut-off jeans, as I recall. Boots.
Did I make that up? Can someone help me with this "fact"? I was drinking a lot more in those days.
JA, PLS, SoCal
Believe it or not, that picture appeared on a predecessor to our current forum.?ÿ Some things you simply cannot clear out of your memory banks.
