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From: mem@sii.UUCP (Mark Mallett)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Regarding consumer newsgroup
Message-ID: <378@sii.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 11-Jan-84 10:37:32 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 11 10:37:32 1984
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Netnews has helped me quite a lot in evaluating computer software and
equipment, both for personal acquisition and for professional recommendations.
A consumer newsgroup, I think, could be useful in the same way (I hope
it isn't called net.ripoff or any other negative name).  But there
could be problems: For every product, there are people who've had a bad
time with it.  I, f'rinstance, once owned a Subaru that I hated- everything
possible seemed to go wrong, right up to getting a bad trade-in value on
it.  I have never met any other Subaru owner who would admit that they 
(the cars) were anything other than wonderful.  I'm afraid people could
go making unbalanced accusations rather than reports of indivual problems,
giving products unfounded bad names and perhaps getting themselves into
trouble along the way.  

Saying "yes",
Mark E. Mallett
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