Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!egvideo!edhew
From: edhew@egvideo.UUCP (Ed Hew)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: Unix Review braindamaged subscription offer
Summary: money talks
Keywords: Unix_Review, advertising, money, unfair
Message-ID: <2041@egvideo.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jun 89 04:00:00 GMT
References: <1989Jun13.175628.28031@telly.on.ca> <391@moegate.UUCP>
Reply-To: edhew@egvideo.UUCP (Ed Hew)
Followup-To: can.general
Distribution: can
Organization: A Box in the Basement, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
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In article <391@moegate.UUCP> soley@moegate.UUCP (Norman S. Soley) writes:
>
>I was talking to a vendor I do a little business with and he mentioned that
>one of his products was recently reviewed in Unix Review, assuming I had
>seen it. I told him about the b.s. of not offering free subscrictions to 
>Canadians. He later phoned up Unix Review and confirmed that that was their 
>policy and when they told him yes he told them, "In that case, I'll be 
>cancelling all of my advertising with you".
>
>Maybe if we can get a few more companies to threaten this the Unix Review
>people will wake up and smell the coffee.

Maybe some of us who have been considering new advertising media might
also politely suggest to them that we'll consider them when they consider
us and our primary market.

After all, if nobody here wants to *pay* for what people south of the border
get gratis, then they also won't be reading it.  If they don't read it, then
I'd be wasting my company's money, and my company frowns on that.  Now, on
the other hand, if it was available to UNIXites in *my* (read: Canada) neck
of the woods, management might feel like signing checks.

I guess the choice here is up to UNIX Review.  All we have to do is point
out the alternatives to them.  Does anyone have a 'NET address for them?

		--ed		{edhew@egvideo.uucp}

>soley@moegate.UUCP  or if you roll your own:  uunet!attcan!ncrcan!moegate!soley

  Ed. A. Hew     Authorized SCO Technical Trainer      Xeni/Con Corporation
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