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From: ong@d.cs.okstate.edu (ONG ENG TENG)
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Subject: Re: PC Magasine Testing Irregularities
Message-ID: <1991Apr29.195403.20335@d.cs.okstate.edu>
Date: 29 Apr 91 19:54:03 GMT
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From <1991Apr24.033643.3628@anomaly.sbs.com>, by mpd@anomaly.sbs.com 
(Michael P. Deignan):
> caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX) writes:
> 
> 
>>   PC Magazine Communications Software Testing Irregularities
> [woes of testing deleted...]
> 
> Chuck,
> 
> Its real simple. Start taking out huge, multi-page mega$thousand$ 
> dollar ads, and you're reviews will instantly, mysteriously, shoot
> up to A-numero-uno.
> 
> Its one reason I stopped getting just about every PC-<whatever>
> magazine.

From what I heard, I have to agree.  I was given a couple of stories
first-hand that because they are small companies that cannot afford
thousand dollar ads in PC Mag (that's what it cost in PC Mag, I was
told), their hardware was not reviewed.  After that, I stopped picking
up PC Mag at the newsstand and opted for Computer Shoppers instead.

It was a present surprise!  The very-thick Computer Shoppers has many
things that PC Mag does not have.  It was like moving from a
communist country where everything is censored to the USA, where most
everything is allowed in print.  Most of all, you find all kinds of
cheap products (hardware mostly) that does not get into PC Mag for 
whatever reason.

Wake up, America!