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> Peer review is the basis for the decision, the same as in standard
> journals

From earlier discussion, I take it to mean that the standard Usenet
practice of "moderation" doesn't fall into your peer review category,
mostly because there's a single moderator and not a community of peers,
and becuase the reviews and the moderation are hardly anonymous.

> 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.

Usenet tends to be community-based and self-sustaining; if some people
make a few bucks along the way in order for the whole process to go
forward, that's what it takes.  It remains to be seen whether more
peer-reviewed forums (e.g. comp.sources.reviewed) pop up; given the
costs of coordinating a multiple-reviewer system it may be sufficiently
unwieldy to discourage all but a few.

--Ed