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- From: jrg@punch (James R. Goble)
- Subject: Re: MacWeek
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.161336.28077@speedy.aero.org>
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- Organization: The Aerospace Corporation; El Segundo, CA
- References: <1057310.2B5C1312@cmhgate.fidonet.org>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:13:36 GMT
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- In article <1057310.2B5C1312@cmhgate.fidonet.org>
- Adam.Frix@p18.f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix) writes:
- > mwojcik@mail.sas.upenn.edu (Michael Wojcik) writes:
- >
- > MW> I wouldn't shell out the $99.00/year. It's just not worth
- > MW> it.
- >
- > well, look at your alternatives: Macworld and MacUser magazines.
- >
- > Those rags have gotten so bad with advertising that I've let my
- subscriptions
- > lapse. I'll try to pick them up in the library to read Steven Levy and
- Andy
- > Ihnatko, but otherwise I'll let them go.
- >
- > Last week I picked up my car magazines. Car and Driver doesn't see the
- > absolute need to stuff 5 catalogs full of ads into every issue, and
- neither
- > does Road & Track. And yet, the car is every bit as entrenched into our
- > society--nay, more so--than the computer.
- >
- > No, at $99/year, I think MacWEEK deserves a look-see. True, it's for
- only 42
- > issues (compared to 50 or so for its sister PCWeek). But it's as full
- of
- > information, if not fuller than, the two main monthlies, and without the
- > tremendous amount of crap advertising. Plus, the advertising that's in
- there
- > is much more timely.
- >
- > Does anyone remember MACazine? That was my favorite. I picked up a
- very old
- > issue, and came across a tip that I never knew or remembered. Thanks,
- Bob.
- > It was a good time...
- >
- > Aloha,
- > --Adam--
- >
- > --
- > Adam Frix via cmhGate - Net 226 fido<=>uucp gateway Col, OH
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- > INET: Adam.Frix@p18.f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG
-
- Adam,
-
- I don't really find all the advertising in MacWorld and MacUser offensive.
- Advertising lets me know what new products are available. It's those
- sorry *%& obsolete reviews that they keep passing off as information that
- really annoys me. That MacUser directory of products that they sent out
- last month nearly sent me ballistic. Some of those reviews were for
- programs that don't even run anymore. (Even under Sysem 6.0.7)
-