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From: lbrown@apctrc.UUCP (Lawrence H. Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Let's help Jerry's kids
Summary: other STuuuuuuuuuupid rags
Keywords: Stupid Magazine ads
Message-ID: <433@apctrc.UUCP>
Date: 8 Feb 88 15:25:19 GMT
References: <4230014@hpfclq.HP.COM> <4160006@hpspdla.HP.COM>
Reply-To: lbrown@apctrc.UUCP (Lawrence H. Brown)
Organization: System Administrator, Drilling Resources Development
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In article <4160006@hpspdla.HP.COM> paulz@hpspdla.HP.COM (Paul Zander) writes:
>The folks at BYTE are not very bright.  A while ago I received an
>offer for a trial copy of their rag. "Keep the first issue even if
>you cancel".  So I wrote CANCEL on the bill and expained that I was
>dissapointed that they no longer covered the neatest small computer
>around.  The magazine and bills keep coming.  The latest bill
>threatened to terminate the subsription for non-payment!

Yep, I've had a few stupid ads.  The one that makes me sick is on page 63
of the March AmigaWorld.  "VideoMaker" The video camera users magazine.
The headline is "DESKTOP VIDEO" with a composite picture of a sideview
of a camcoder, a monitor that is displaying "Billy's Birthday" (a picture
featured prominently with either DeluxeVideo or Genlock) and it's sitting on
(Gag, retch) a IBM PC!  Come on guys, get real.  That ad encouraged me NOT
to subscribe!
-- 
	Lawrence H. Brown
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Disclaimer: I paid 25 cents to see the light.  Call it cheap entertainment.