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From: rap@ardent.UUCP (Rob Peck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: USENET REVIEWS
Summary: guidelines can be imitated, perhaps
Message-ID: <333@ardent.UUCP>
Date: 27 Mar 88 23:36:36 GMT
References: <540@lakesys.UUCP> <3527@cbmvax.UUCP>
Organization: Dana Computer, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <3527@cbmvax.UUCP>, schein@cbmvax.UUCP (Dan Schein CATS) writes:
> In article <540@lakesys.UUCP> joe@lakesys.UUCP (Joe Pantuso) writes:
> >
> >Proposal:  To start an electronic review system for new Amiga software and
> >hardware.  It would be distributed by Usenet, then placed onto local bbs's.
>   
>    Once we set up some kind of actual guidelines and reviewers, im sure that
>   a few of the comp.sys.amiga readers can arrange coverage in the Amiga
>   magazines ;-)

Once a year or so, Info World publishes its guidelines for reviews - that
is, how THEY go about evaluating a product.  I believe that manufacturers
who are interested in getting their product reviewed can also obtain this
information just by writing to them.  It seems like it might be the basis
for starting such a project, anyway.  Then, so as not to look too much like
a clone (they could sue us for all of the non-profit we made on this) of
the Info World guidelines, we could modify some of the criteria - like
instead of "Does it run on all possible versions of PCDos at all 80xx(x)
processor speeds" we could substitute something about Amiga instead (grin).
My $0.02 worth.

Rob Peck				...ihnp4!hplabs!ardent!rap