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echo: aust_ads
to: Paul Edwards
from: Lewin Edwards
date: 1996-05-04 10:52:04
subject: contract work

LE>> A $50 advertisement in one of the cheaper swapmeet rags will get good 
PE> Forgive my ignorance, I've only ever read APC plus a bit of other
PE> stuff, but what are "swapmeet rags"?  BFN.  Paul.
That's more than I read. As I posted in OS2USER in CIS some time ago,
"The glossy pages of computer magazines aren't even useful as toilet
paper, being too hard and scratchy. Even ignoring the advertising bias of
all these publications, and the fact that they are typically >=75%
junkmail, the 2 month or greater typical lead time means that even if some
small particle of truthful and/or useful information filters into the final
copy, by the time it reaches the newsstand, it's too out of date to help
the people who could have used it, who in any case will have heard the news
from faster and more reliable sources in any case"

By swapmeet rags I was referring to publications such as the Melbourne
Computer Trader.

-- Lewin A.R.W. Edwards [Team OS/2]  Tel 0419320415 * 0412809805 * 0414927056
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