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From: chris@imagine.ADMS-RAD.Unisys.COM (Chris Sterritt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: SEX! (Now that we've got your attention...)
Message-ID: <290@imagine.ADMS-RAD.Unisys.COM>
Date: 5 Jul 90 18:29:03 GMT
References: <9680.2690a1c5@amherst.bitnet>
Reply-To: chris@ADMS-RAD.Unisys.COM (Chris Sterritt)
Organization: Unisys/Automated Document Management Systems, Radnor, PA
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In article <9680.2690a1c5@amherst.bitnet> amherasimchu@amherst.bitnet writes:
>Stop right there.  Have you seen the cover of MacUser?  Have you noticed the
>last three covers of MacUser?
>[...]
>And then they have a cover with a woman seductively licking a stamp for e-mail?
>Seems like using sex to sell is finally making it's way into the software
>industry.

Two things: First, it's been fairly entertaining to read the 'Letters to the
Editor' column in MacUser, to see people flame the art-director WHO THEY ASSUME
is a man, because of all the sexy-woman stuff in the articles (it's only now
getting to the cover).  Imagine their surprise when MacUser tells them it's
a woman who designed all those layouts!

>It's a trend that I'd like to see stopped.  (Not by law, but by
>taste.)

Hear hear!  I couldn't agree more.

	--chris sterritt

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