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In article <2quids$cr5@seismo.CSS.GOV>, Glen Foster wrote:
> I regularly go to places that I have seen mentioned here and I
> suspect that many others do too. How long before we start seeing
> advertisements disguised as "reviews?"

This newsgroup is wonderful for two reasons: 1) Most of the reviewers are
just plain folk like myself -- personal opinions with no pretensions of
being the end-all and be-all of the restaurant critic world.  2) This group
is not afraid to shred a place when it deserves it, or to propose a better
alternative to a recommendation.  Best example?  Witness the thread about
the Fishmarket in Alexandria.  Does anyone on this group really have any
plans to eat there soon?  (Rhetorical question -- don't start this up 
again!!)  I think that if ads do start showing up as reviews, we'll see
people chiming in with "Hey, he works there," or "Well, I ate there and
got sick," or "Actually, So-and-so's has better...."  This is a GREAT
forum for discovering new places to eat.

-- Jonathan Crawford
   Ark Technologies, Inc.