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At 21:13 21-12-98 +1100, Christian Gerzner wrote: >Folks, > >At the risk of being flamed off this list I have to confess that >yesterday I actually *bought*, as in purchased, outlayed dollars, spent >money on, a copy of the Oz equivalent of the US "Skin Diver", here >called "Sportdiving". > >In defense of Sportdiving I have to suggest that it is actually better >(FWTIW) than Skin Diver. But not by much. I would suggest that it a much better (!) publication than "Skindiver". > >I did this in the interests of "research" and thusly I have attached a >scan (in PDF) of page 27 of this rag, whoops I mean magazine of course. It is interesting that you refer to it as a "rag", when you used to write a regular column for the sister publication (Dive Log Australia) which is published and edited by the same people. I was under the impression that you stopped writing the column because you "ran out of ideas". The page you are refering to is clearly a paid advertisement. It is quite obviously being promoted by Sherwood. It would seem that your critisicm would be better directed at Sherwood rather than a magazine which obviously relies on paid advertising in order to exist. Regards, David > >There has previously been some discussion on this List regarding the >subject matter mostly, shall we say, of a scathing nature. > >Understandably so, I would have thought, considering this advertisement. > >My own observation is that I really hope that most Oz divers, the real >ones anyway, will see straight through this piece of convoluted >Bullshit. My second observation is that there is _nevertheless_ still a >sucker born every minute ... and probably more often than that. Sad, >isn't it! > >Cheers, Seasons Greetings (Bah! Humbug!), and please excuse the >bandwidth, > >Christian > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Ocean Internet - "The Quality ISP" http://www.ocean.com.au/info.html -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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