Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!news.cs.indiana.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!news.iastate.edu!cs352a41 From: cs352a41@cs.iastate.edu (Adam Goldberg) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems Subject: Re: PC Magasine Testing Irregularities Message-ID: Date: 30 Apr 91 15:56:39 GMT References: <2.281CFA00@zswamp.uucp> Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA Lines: 25 root@zswamp.uucp (Geoffrey Welsh) writes: >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. > Case in point: Compute! magazine. What a piece of trash, but it sure does sell... -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ! Adam Goldberg ! * ! "It's simple! Even a PASCAL ! ! cs352a41@cs.iastate.edu ! * ! programmer could do it!" ! +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+