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From: sharon@asylum.SF.CA.US (Sharon Fisher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Northgate Problems
Message-ID: <2922@asylum.SF.CA.US>
Date: 16 Jul 89 17:34:47 GMT
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Reply-To: sharon@asylum.UUCP (Sharon Fisher)
Organization: The Asylum; Belmont, CA
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In article <4467@tank.uchicago.edu> pre1@tank.uchicago.edu (Grant Prellwitz) writes:
>Well, maybe I'm the only one on the Net who can report good experiences with
>Northgate products, but I think that I had better, lest someone think that
>only negative things are said about them.
>
>First, I have to say that these are the first negative things that I've heard
>said about Northgate.  I read the computer press pretty regularly and don't
>recall any complaints, much less ones of this magnitude!  It should be noted,
>however, that these industry rags are the same ones in which Northgate tends
>to advertise.  I'm not suggesting, or even implying, a relationship, just
>making an observation.

As somebody who used to work for one of the "industry rags" you
mention (InfoWorld), I can guarantee you that they would not hold back
or otherwise not do a story because the subject was an advertiser.
Several times during my two years there we did stories on mail order
company ripoffs -- including our own advertisers.  
-- 
"Inanna spoke:
	My vulva, the horn, the Boat of Heaven, is full of eagerness like 
the young moon. My untilled land lies fallow.  As for me, Inanna, who will 
plow my vulva? Who will plow my high field? Who will plow my wet ground?"
					Inanna: Queen of Heaven and Earth
					Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer