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

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From: John F. Haugh II
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 02:07
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In article <18745.Aug3006.08.2292@virtualnews.nyu.edu> brnstnd@nyu.edu (D. J. Bernstein) writes:
>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 be so quick to cancel the funeral - the most recent "package" is
really just a rip-off of the compress source that's been running about
for the last 10 years or so ...
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From: jfh@rpp386.lonestar.org (John F. Haugh II)
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Subject: Re: comp.sources.reviewed and a blast from the past
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Date: 1 Sep 92 02:07:43 GMT
References: <22604.Aug103.47.2091@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <1992Aug11.225255.22760@athena.mit.edu> <18745.Aug3006.08.2292@virtualnews.nyu.edu>
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