Magazine Insults Non-Subscribers

Following on the heels of Today’s Cacher’s inappropriate humor leading up to the April issue, the contents page had a cryptogram on it. Always up for a puzzle, I decrypted it.

if you can read this, then you are a paying, premium subscriber to today’s cacher, the premier magazine for geocachers everywhere. if you had to decrypt this message, then you are a non-paying leech, an anchor on the economic juggernaut that is today’s cacher. you will be spending a good deal of your time from now on decrypting rot-13, as some of the articles to be found in today’s cacher in the future will be thusly encrypted to encourage our readers to pony-up and help us cover the skyrocketing wages of the writers, the jets and company cars and expense accounts of the executives, and the electron recycling expenses associated with running the website. thank you for your support in making today’s cacher the best gently encrypted e-zine on the internet. the staff, executives, and peons of today’s cacher

What a wonderful manner in building a customer base. Given the lack of judgement the magazine staff has used previously with humor, I do not for a moment take the comment as an obvious attempt at humor. It also calls into question whether the image of the tree of dead cats and the slogan Buy our magazine or we’ll kill you was really an internal attempt at humor or truly a mock-up for this issue. The sentiment of both pieces is the same; start paying us money or else.

Despite the magazine’s claim, it is a magazine for lemmings only.

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