Editorial / Ray Bowden

I never cease to be amazed at the variety of views that are put forward
on any given subject. Reading through your letters and the comments on
your feedback cards is enough to make the strongest of us wilt in
confusion. For every reader who requests more of something there's
always one who wants less. For each one who says we're getting better
there's one who thinks we're getting nowhere. When one wants more
reviews and less modifications the other requests less reviews and more
modifications. And the list of what we ought to be including is quite
amazing.

The one factor that many of you, but fortunately not all, seem to forget
is that Phoenix is what you make it. We cannot include what we do not
have. Phoenix feeds on what YOU the subscriber feed it with. Contrary to
popular belief Phoenix is not produced by a cast of thousands - nothing
could be further from the truth. It takes all our resources to simply
produce the physical item; we cannot, as I have said before, write
material to order. So by all means let us know what you would like to
see in Phoenix but don't knock us too hard if it doesn't materialise.
Someone, somewhere has to supply it to us first!

And if you read an article in Phoenix that you know you could have
written better don't say it--DO IT!