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From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc
Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server?
Date: Fri, 04 Oct 1996 22:40:31 +0000
Organization: Erol's Internet Services
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Brian Somers wrote:
> 
> In article <slrn552ger.r6q.Alain.Knaff@choiseul.inrialpes.fr>,
>         Alain.Knaff@poboxes.com (Alain Knaff) writes:
> Someone wrote:
> >:>If you read ZD commercials, you get what you deserve.
> >:>
> >:>   I am just surprised they have not been sued yet by some citizen
> >:>organization for they outrageous lies by commission or omission.
> >:>   It is not a matter of opinion and free speech... they sell their
> >:>stuff as information, and they cheat their customers.
> >
> >  No they don't.  Their customers are not their readers, but their
> > advertisers.  The readers are only the product sold ;-)
> 
> And if their readers *believe* all ZD commercials, they get what they
> deserve!  Personally, I think some of them are worth reading !  Needless
> to say, if something sounds good, it should be verified !
> 
The commercials are worth reading anyway. We all need a good laugh now
and then!
-- 
Ken

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