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- From: fluet@ee.ualberta.ca (Kevin Blaine Fluet)
- Subject: Re: Why do we read PC mags?
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 18:33:55 GMT
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- gerry@cmu.edu (Gerry Roston) writes:
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- >I recently resubscribed to PC Magazine, and after having received the
- >January 26 issue, I must ask myself why. The columnists are total
- >morons, the hardware reviews are wrong, self-contradictory and biased,
- >and the ads are not as good or plentiful as the Computer Shopper.
-
- [stuff deleted]
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- >Sorry about the tirade. However, I know that there are at least a
- >dozen readers of this bboard who could team up to produce a vastly
- >superior journal.
-
- I agree with you completely. Even BYTE, which I used to consider an
- excellent magazine, has become unreadable. I haven't bought a computer
- magazine for months, except for Computer Shopper, and even then I only
- bought it for the ads (to compare mail-order prices). I think part of the
- 'problem' may be that the various Usenet groups are much more informative
- than any magazine (any info in a magazine is generally two months old--it
- takes them that long to get an issue out), and that any time I see an
- article in a magazine, it's already very old news to me.
-
- Kevin Fluet
- fluet@ee.ualberta.ca
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