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- From: gsbg9079@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (G. Scott Braley)
- Subject: Re: Byte magazine, con man?
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 03:19:08 GMT
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- cs161fho@sdcc10.ucsd.edu (cs161fho) writes:
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- >Recently discussion about Net vs. magazines remind me of my
- >unpleasant experience with Byte magazine. I subscribed to it two
- >years ago, but only received one issue. After I found out the check
- >was cashed, I wrote them twice- never receive a reply. I think Byte
- >was taking chance that small subscriber like me will never take
- >legal action against them for the little subscription fee(to them at
- >least). They were right; as a result, I have never purchased a
- >single issue of Byte again.
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- I am so sure. Byte probably has a whole department devoted to screwing
- small subscribers. Why, the probably bilk, what, literally hundreds of
- dollars every _year_ out of sheer greed and avarice.
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