I became disappointed with the AF Magazine editors a couple years ago after they stopped posting full-sized, high-res graphics in the newsletter. It makes no sense, even considering the stock explanation given below. I commented on the web response page a few times, to no avail. So a couple weeks ago I finally became fed up with it and decided to get aggressive. At least I got somebody’s attention. I intended to continue forwarding the original complaint (bottom) with a new insult for every graphic in the newsletter they continued to mis-link. Still not confident anything will get done, but I’ll find Amy’s boss and a couple more higher-ups and add some more addresses to re-start this in the future, if necessary. Scroll to the bottom of the message chain and read-up to see how it took less than 2 weeks to get it done.
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2019 11:32:06 -0600
Subject: Re: Response to Daily Report comments
From: Paul <acewiza@gmail.com>
To: Amy McCullough <AMcCullough@afa.org>
Thanks for the response, Amy – I imagined my email address was in the spam filter by now. As a big fan of all things aerospace, I believe the biggest disservice in this situation is to the hard-working airmen out in the field taking those pictures. They deserve to have their work displayed prominently and correctly. I’ll stop harassing you about it, now that I believe someone who cares is aware of it.
v/r
On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 10:03 AM Amy McCullough <AMcCullough@afa.org> wrote:
Sir,
I do apologize for the low-resolution graphics on the website. We are extremely limited by our current technology, but we are in the middle of a complete revamp of our website/email blast, which will include a completely new CMS system. Once that launches, which won’t be for about six more months, we will be able to post beautiful high-resolution pictures. However, as of now, we are losing capability on a daily basis because our CMS system is no longer supported. I would really appreciate you bearing with us while we go through this upgrade process. We are aware that our existing technology is less than ideal. It is something we take very seriously and we are doing everything we can to get it right, but it takes time.
Sincerely,
Amy McCullough
News Editor
Air Force Magazine
1501 Lee Highway
Arlington, Va., 22209
703-247-5805
From:* Paul <acewiza@gmail.com>
Sent:* Monday, April 1, 2019 9:14 AM
To:* membership <membership@afa.org>
Subject:* Fwd: What is wrong with you Idiots?
Is that a B-1 on the April 1 Daily Report? Hard to tell from that tiny little pic provided.
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From: *Paul* <acewiza@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 7:14 AM
Subject: Fwd: What is wrong with you Idiots?
To: membership <membership@afa.org>
Is that a nice nightshot of a B1 refueling on the 29 March Daily Report? Hard to tell when you can’t see much on that lowres thumbnail you posted.
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From: *Paul* <acewiza@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 7:54 AM
Subject: Fwd: What is wrong with you Idiots?
To: membership <membership@afa.org>
Hey – nice shot of the AEHF launch on the 17th! Too bad your readers can’t see it very well on the crappy, low-res pic you posted to the Daily Report today.
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From: *Paul* <acewiza@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 8:21 AM
Subject: Fwd: What is wrong with you Idiots?
To: membership <membership@afa.org>
So today, AF News treated us to a lowres shot of Gen. Raymond. They even linked it to the same lowres graphic in the story. Isn’t that special!? More like specially retarded.
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From: *Paul* <acewiza@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 7:43 AM
Subject: Fwd: What is wrong with you Idiots?
To: membership <membership@afa.org>
Still no-go on the Daily Report Graphics. Looks like a nice shot of some F-35s on the ramp, but hard to tell for sure. Here’s a few suggestions for webmaster study and course work:
https://www.ed2go.com/courses/computer-programming/programming-classes/ctp/webmaster
https://study.com/what_training_do_you_need_for_a_webmaster.html
https://www.google.com/webmasters/learn/
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From: *Paul* <acewiza@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 7:23 AM
Subject: Fwd: What is wrong with you Idiots?
To: membership <membership@afa.org>
WRT the 25 MAR Daily Report, when I clicked on the lead story graphic it took me to a copy of the same low-res crappy graphic file displayed on the web page. So I just clicked delete and ignored the rest.
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From: *Paul* <acewiza@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 6:56 AM
Subject: What is wrong with you Idiots?
To: membership <membership@afa.org>
What newsletter posts a graphic with a link to the same low-res, crappy file seen in the post? Answer: AF Magazine! In reference to your leading photo in the 18 March newsletter: The fact that (whoever your webmaster is) takes the time to link the picture, only exposes what idiots you people are. You’ve been doing this for years now and I cannot figure out why. It’s either plain stupidity or pure, shitty imaginary greed. Both?
I always believed it true to not blame malice for what can be explained by stupidity. Now I wonder.
v/r
Paul D. Shaffer, MSgt, USAF (ret.)