I am interested in how other folks treat Life magazine.  The situation that
has arisen is this:  There are 12 monthly issues to Life.  Along with these
issues are, usually, 4 special issues which are included in the volume
numbering of the 12.  We just found out that these special issues are
available only at news outlets, *not* as part of the subscription.  What this
means is that one's issue numbering for the monthly issues gets thrown off by
the special issues.  For example, the November 1991 issue was given number
14, a special issue which is available only at your friendly corner store gets
issue number 15, and the December issue has number 16.
The questions regarding this are:
1)  How do other people treat this mess?
2)  Do you attempt to get the special issues for binding purposes?
3)  Should we raid the Life offices and get them to not number these special
    issues, at have their numbering included in the current volume?
4)  Do you ignore the special issues, and bind the volume with just the
    12 monthly issues?

This can cause a bit of an irritation with an automated checkin system,
depending of course, on its flexibility, in the way that it will or will not
update holdings.  It would think that there would be four missing issues if
they were not accounted for.

On this note, about all I can say is:  A penny for your thoughts.

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