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Re: comp.sources.reviewed and a blast from the past

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From: D. J. Bernstein
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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Subject: Re: comp.sources.reviewed and a blast from the past
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Date: 30 Aug 92 06:08:22 GMT
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