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- From: hurd@fraser.sfu.ca (Peter L. Hurd)
- Subject: Re: Magazine subscription... suggestions?
- Message-ID: <hurd.716236689@sfu.ca>
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- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
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- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 18:38:09 GMT
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- >|> I find that most of the magazines I see on the shelf are 90% advertisements and
- >|> software/hardware reviews. I would like to subscribe to a magazine that
- >|> actually contains some good articles. I want to know what's happening out
- >|> there.
- Well ads are money, if the mag isn't making money on ads, they'll be
- taking the money from the mag buyer. More ads, less expensive. But
- endless reviews get me down, I don't buy a new machine every three months,
- why all these endless buyer's guides to balhblahblahs?
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- -- Pete Hurd, hurd@sfu.ca |"So I've got this 22Meg output file..." |
- Behavioural Ecology Research Group |"Yeah, well delete it." |
- Dept.Biol.Sci., Simon Fraser Univ. |"But how will I know what it says" |
- Burnaby B.C. V5A 1S6 Canada |"Well, how will you know what it means?"|
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