When Alex Vieux, embattled publisher of Red Herring, gets back from his jaunt to Cannes, he might want to do a bit of advertiser maintenance. The exotic miniature mogul's been busy this week, at the legendary tech magazine's conference at the resort on the French Riviera. Or maybe at the casino, which was so busy on the first night that most attendees failed to make the next morning's keynote on time. At any rate, he's still not delivered the latest issue to one of the troubled magazine's few remaining advertisers. Mail Foundry, we're told, booked a full-page ad in the magazine's recent security special. The anti-spam venture's execs couldn't find a copy of the magazine, which has a notoriously erratic publication schedule, on newsstands; and they're still waiting for Vieux to send them, as he promised, a copy. If indeed it ever did go to print.

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