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Article #735Re: comp.sources.reviewed and a blast from the past
From: D. J. Bernstein
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 06:08
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 06:08
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I was wrong. The group hasn't died. It's difficult to call it successful when it doesn't even produce one package a month, but it hasn't died. The reviewers and authors have taken it much more seriously than I thought; I would no longer be surprised if comp.sources.reviewed was still around, producing an occasional package, in five or ten years. Don't take this as praise---I still oppose the theory and practice of comp.sources.reviewed, and I would be happy to see it disappear. I'll bet most of the reviewers are a lot more cynical now about the group. Maybe this is the time for them to take a long hard look at what they're doing and to figure out *why* comp.sources.reviewed hasn't lived up to the optimists' expectations. Maybe, just maybe, they'll even figure out how to turn the group into something recognizably useful within USENET. ---Dan
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!gatech!darwin.sura.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!ucbvax!virtualnews.nyu.edu!brnstnd From: brnstnd@nyu.edu (D. J. Bernstein) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: comp.sources.reviewed and a blast from the past Message-ID: <18745.Aug3006.08.2292@virtualnews.nyu.edu> Date: 30 Aug 92 06:08:22 GMT References: <22604.Aug103.47.2091@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <1992Aug11.225255.22760@athena.mit.edu> Organization: IR Lines: 15