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From: moynihan_r@apollo.HP.COM (Robert Moynihan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Tentative Review of _Compute_
Message-ID: <4d105b19.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM>
Date: 27 Sep 90 19:26:00 GMT
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In article <3496@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> xrtnt@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov writes:
>
>I recall seeing someone in this group associated with Compute so I figured
>they'd like some feedback about their "new" magazine...

I thought I'd put my two cents in here as well.  I sent in a subscription to
Compute's Amiga Resource because I wanted a subscription to an Amiga-only
magazine.  Any so-called "general" computer magazine that I have seen is 90+%
heavily-biased PC-clone coverage, and I wanted nothing to do with that sort
of magazine.  My subscription was to include six magazines with disks. I
received two issues when the news hit about Bob Guccione's Omni Publications
buying out the magazine.  Now, I was supposed to get the new Compute instead.
and *no disks*!  I DON'T WANT IT!  It's *not* what I agreed to when I sent in 
my money!  I knew immediately that the new "unbiased" magazine would be heavily 
PC weighted, and that's EXACTLY what happened.  The magazine I am receiving is 
in my mind 70% worthless drek.  I care *nothing* about PC's and Macs.  That's 
why I subscrbed to an *Amiga only* magazine. 

>BTW: There are only 48 pages of Amiga specific stuff...not 64 as stated in the
>Feedback column. 

I.E. not only do they gloss over the fact that they are not selling what we
subscribers bought, they lie about the product they *are* putting out.  
Apparently, if the word "Amiga" appears on a page, it counts as being Amiga
specific.

>Now the bad part (if the previous was positive ;-).  The general section...
>was hardly more than an extra PC section. 

Which is exactly what I (and I'm sure thousands of other subscribers) knew
would happen.

>So...what can I say?  The Amiga section was shorter than claimed (48 pages)
>..was either about the same as before or a little worse and the other 160 odd
>pages were PC info and PC biased.
>
>You guys better get your act together or you're going to see Amiga Resource
>subscriptions dissapear.  I may not be able to get a refund but I doubt that I
>will consider resubscribing...I can understand this sort of behavior from PC 
>rags but from a theoretical amiga magazine? 

I certainly will not resubscribe.  As soon as I received the Omni magazine in
the mail, I called and told them I wanted my subscription cancelled, and my
money refunded.  I was told that they would do that.  Last week, when Compute!
arrived, I called again.  This time I was fed a bunch of bull.  I am disgusted
with Omni Publications and the new Compute!  

>Eeech.  Compute gets an overall D- rating from me. 

If there were a grade lower than F, they'd get *that* from me.  

I wonder if there's any possibility in a class-action suit of all angry former
Amiga Resource subscribers against Omni Publications?  Any attorneys out there
want to field this one? 



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