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From: root@zswamp.uucp (Geoffrey Welsh)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: PCMagazine recriminations
Message-ID: <5.28200D82@zswamp.uucp>
Date: Thu, 02 May 91 01:11:01 EST
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In a letter to All, Casey Leedom (casey@gauss.llnl.gov ) wrote:

 >  Uhmmm, if I *was* buying PC Magazine, or any other 
 >magazine that specialized in any area, whether computers, horses or 
 >whatever, I would expect to get value for my money.

   We should expect the same of consultants, wouldn't you say?  However, 
having worked for a few and as one myself, I can assure you that anyone 
making a recommendation based only on things with which they've had extensive 
personal experience is a rare animal.  In fact, the thing which limits my 
activities more than anything else is the overwhelming feeling that I have 
barely seen a fraction of what's out there and that the average customer is 
going to need advice on things I know nothing about...

   I don't know if this experience is unique to the computer industry; I 
certainly hope so, since I'd hate to see the people who build high rise 
buildings basing their construction on what they think *ought* to work... but 
people in the computer industry *have* to do that to stay in business.

   So, I look at PCMag as just another firm sloshing through new material as 
best they can, learning from their mistakes (after the fact) as do most of 
the 'professionals' in this business... 

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