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gerry@cmu.edu (Gerry Roston) writes:

>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.

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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