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From: root@zswamp.uucp (Geoffrey Welsh)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: PC Magasine Testing Irregularities
Message-ID: <2.281CFA00@zswamp.uucp>
Date: 29 Apr 91 14:39:30 GMT
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In a letter to All, Kenneth Ng (ken@sugra.uucp ) wrote:

 >By the same token, who is going to advertise in a magazine 
 >that no one
 >buys because they know the editors will sell out to whoever 
 >advertises in their magazine?

   No one ever lost money underestimating the taste/intelligence of the 
general public.

   In this case, PCMag will have huge subscriptions no matter what informed 
people (like us!?!) do.
 

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