From: no@spam.here (Mat Bettinson)
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Subject: Re: AF And CU Amiga...Shame on us?
Date: Sat, 06 Sep 1997 21:58:38 GMT
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On 30 Aug 1997 09:17:06 GMT, gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (George Noel)
wrote:

>Yet you do not consider the Apple Macintosh a rival to the Amiga? It seems
>very hypocritical that you don't allow something which could further the
>Amiga community but allow something that is promoting taking away from it.
>And I am talking about the ads from Gordon Harwoods about selling Macs in
>an Amiga magazine.. explain that. I don't care if Gordon Hardwoods is an
>Amiga dealer also.

Sorry for replying to something that's a week old but I could shed
some light on this. Our policy in this regard isn't out of choice,
it's dictated by law. We can't refuse to take Gordon Harwood's
advertisements however we can refuse to take advertisements from our
direct competetors.

I assure you, we aren't happy about the Harwood adverts at ALL but
hopefully our readers are intelligent enough to discount them
altogether.

At one stage the tide of criticism that Harwood's received for the
advert persuaded them to drop it. However it appear latter with an
editorial style blurb that wasn't so factually incorrect at least.

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