Re: Flyers (fwd)

Subject: Re: Flyers (fwd)
From: Othmar Pasteka (pasteka@kabsi.at)
Date: Fri Jun 16 2000 - 16:40:40 CEST

hi,

looks kewl, great but see for yourself.

my impression: the design/layout looks good imho and the logo of
federico's company is also ok they should get credits anyway.
and i also like mixad because the ydouble the amount of flyers,
they are nice, aren't they? :)

shorty/grisu. so it shouldn't be a problem to take flyers from
this pile, just take them (imho). but well not all of them ;).

so long
Othmar

----- Forwarded message from Federico Di Gregorio <fog@mixadlive.com> -----

Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 16:13:20 +0200
To: Othmar Pasteka <pasteka@kabsi.at>
Subject: Re: Flyers
From: fog@mixadlive.com (Federico Di Gregorio)

Scavenging the mail folder uncovered Othmar Pasteka's letter:

> what's about the flyers any news? we would like to hear something
> about it. or a preview or a statusreport, whatever.

sorry for being soooo late. this is the what we think to do. don't
look at the text, is the wrong one, i append to this mail the right
one. the fliers will be doublefaced, one side english one german.
we will print 10,000 of them. let me know what do you think about.

ciao,
federico 

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MIXAD LIVE System Programmer                           fog@mixadlive.com
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