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From: draskoy@ubc-ean.UUCP (Andrew Draskoy)
Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix
Subject: Re: UNIX Review considered sleazy
Message-ID: <2081@ubc-ean.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 21-Aug-87 19:56:38 EDT
Article-I.D.: ubc-ean.2081
Posted: Fri Aug 21 19:56:38 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 23-Aug-87 10:27:58 EDT
References: <1890@sfsup.UUCP> <2050@umn-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: draskoy@ubc-ean.UUCP (Andrew Draskoy)
Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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In article <2050@umn-cs.UUCP> smiller@umn-cs.UUCP (Steven M. Miller) writes:
>In article <1890@sfsup.UUCP>, mdash@sfsup.UUCP (M.D.Scheer) writes:
>> But I >DID< take the time to fill out their questionnaire, and they >DID<
>> imply that I would receive the magazine in return.
>
> please don't make accusations you cannot support.

Actually, I had similar experiences to mdash's a few years ago, so at Phoenix
I pressed UNIX Review personell for details before filling out the voluminous
questionaire.  They said that it was those with "purchasing power" who would
get free subscriptions.  I consider it a bit underhanded of them to get
systems people (by far the largest subgroup of usenix attendees, I should
think) to fill out these forms under the impression that they were likely
to get subscriptions, when in fact they weren't.

Andrew