I only check ARSClist every week or so - so I just found this thread. I  
wanted to share my "ironic moment" with RR.
 
I started subscribing in the  1970s when I first got into collecting  old 
records. Lenny wasx always advertising the "Once in a lifetime" offer of run  
of back issues from about #50  (at that time, it was a "rolling number" as  
time went on.
 
So I bought them. Then in late 1990s I was at a paper collectibles show and 
 saw a pile of RR's. The guy wanted to sell it as a lot. I looked to see 
what #s  were there and they were complete from #5 through # 49. (exactly the 
ones I  needed except the first four issues). So I bought them. Then 2 
months later Kurt  Nauck's auction catalog came. He had issues #1-70 or so. They 
were available  individually or as a lot bid. I wrote Kurt and said that if 
they sold as a lot,  would he xerox the first four issues for me. They did 
and he did (for a very  reasonable price.) I planned to go back and read 
them, but - of course - we  never have time for that.
 
Anyway, I thought it ironic how my run all came together.
 
Steve