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Perhaps I did not communicate my thinking well enough.  I recognize
the need and desireability of peer-review publication, and well
understand why researchers pursue publication in those forums.  My
point is that there is much thinking, referencing, and informal
communication which is part of the process of creating a manuscript of
sufficient quality for publication in such journals, and that this
forum, comp.groupware, may be valuable in that process.

Rather than try to change the informality of the newsgroup, let us use
it to our advantage.  An excellent model would be the TCP-IP mailing
list (also known as comp.protocols.tcp-ip) where the theoreticians,
the implementors (originally applied-researchers and now vendors as
well), and the users/customers have all been involved in the evolution
of the TCP-IP protocol suite over the course of the past ten years.

-Ittai

PS: If you were at CSCW '90, you would have been informed by Esther
    Dyson, that the word "groupware" is now passe :-).

PPS: Is anyone going to post a trip report of CSCW '90?  Why aren't
     the organizers participating in this forum, by the way?  At the
     very least one would think they'd want to promote CSCW '91 in
     Toronto...