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- From: ladd@oscar.cs.unc.edu (Brian Ladd)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
- Subject: The Cobb Group (Was Re: INSIDE OS/2 mag)
- Message-ID: <LADD.92Aug15155722@oscar.cs.unc.edu>
- Date: 15 Aug 92 19:57:22 GMT
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- Organization: UNC Department of Computer Science
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- In-reply-to: gyan@unixg.ubc.ca's message of 14 Aug 92 19:23:07 GMT
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- INSIDE OS/2, another "fine" offering from The Cobb Group. It seems they
- publish an "INSIDE X" newsletter/magazine for every package on PC's. I once
- subscribed to INSIDE DOS; I thought I had just screwed up and gotten a
- beginner's magazine when I wanted discussion of how to write a TSR with DOS
- calls. Then, reading a little bit further, I found that the newsletter was
- wrong. I wrote a letter to the editor after each issue I recieved,
- documenting their errors. The first couple were polite, the last couple
- probably ended up in the circular file in seconds, but I have decided that
- the Cobb Group and their publications are:
-
- 1) Technically-unsound.
- 2) Overpriced.
- 3) Basically a scam.
-
-
- So INSIDE OS/2 being wrong, vague and insipid does not surprise me. Caveat
- Emptor!
-
- Brian C. Ladd
- Graduate Student & *NIX Court Jester
- UNC - Chapel Hill
-