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Re: Usenet and Archiving of Electronic Journals

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From: Stevan Harnad
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1992 23:30
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> From: Sterling IMD <root@imd.sterling.com>
> Date: Tue, 7 Apr 92 16:51:55 CDT
>
> I would be interested in your list of 50 that would qualify.
> I would hope that there would
> be a little more to the restrictions (such as no posting) or the net
> will see a potentially large number of anonymous posts from generic
> accounts with no way to trace the offenders.

The message pertained to refereed journals and a few high level
moderated lists, so all posting would be rigorously gated.

> > most of the material on Usenet
> > is not WORTH archiving in perpetuum.
>
> A rather subjective decision and one I would not want to make from a
> general community standpoint...

Peer review is the basis for the decision, the same as in standard
refereed paper journals.

> If you are interested in the NetNews/CD service, either send mail to
> myself or to cdnews@sterling.com.

If this is a commercial service then I think it will not be helpful to
the kinds of mechanisms we are trying to set up, which are
university-based and non-profit.

Stevan Harnad
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Date: Tue, 7 Apr 92 19:30:36 EDT
From: "Stevan Harnad" <harnad@Princeton.EDU>
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