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From: rfarris@rfengr.com (Rick Farris)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,alt.bbs
Subject: Re: PC Magasine Testing Irregularities
Keywords: communications software testing zmodem
Message-ID: <1991Apr25.164321.17579@rfengr.com>
Date: 25 Apr 91 16:43:21 GMT
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Organization: RF Engineering, Del Mar, California
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In article <1991Apr24.184543.27339@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:

> That's unfair.  I've had two very positive reviews in PC
> Magazine without every buying more than a classified at
> the back, as well as good reviews in other Z-D magazines.

It is a policy at a magazine where I write that advertisers
specifically do *not* get better reviews, and further, a
full-page color ad each month does not have any affect on
whether or not a product is reviewed.


> In most big magazines the editorial people do not
> associate much with the ad sales people, and find them
> boring.

In a lot of big magazines, the ad sales people are not even
located in the same state with the editorial people.  To say
nothing of the fact that except for a few core people, most
of the editorial people are scattered around the country. 


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