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From: roger@wet.UUCP (Roger Niclas)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,alt.bbs
Subject: Re: PC Magasine Testing Irregularities
Message-ID: <2424@wet.UUCP>
Date: 7 May 91 19:27:59 GMT
References: <1991Apr29.195403.20335@d.cs.okstate.edu>
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Organization: Wetware Diversions, San Francisco
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ong@d.cs.okstate.edu (ONG ENG TENG) writes:
> 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...]
> > 
> > Its real simple. Start taking out huge, multi-page mega$thousand$ 
> 

> up PC Mag at the newsstand and opted for Computer Shoppers instead.
> 
> 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 

> Wake up, America! 
 
It may come as a surprise to you, then, to find out that both PC Magazine and
Computer Shopper are Ziff-Davis publications.  In fact, Computer Shopper's new
"competitor," PC Sources is also a Z-D publication.  'Shopper' can be expected
to increase their page rate soon, and 'Sources' will take the overflow of 
advertisers who opt out of the new, higher-priced rate structure.
 
No magazine can review everything, and sometimes the decisions are made on
relatively superficial grounds, but sometimes they're because the product just
doesn't fit into the scheduled categories and doesn't appear to be the "killer
app" that would warrant a stand-alone review.  Other times it's because stuff
submitted for review arrives with such poor docs that the reviewers can't
be sure they'll even know how it's supposed to work.

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