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  2. From: brnstnd@nyu.edu (D. J. Bernstein)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
  4. Subject: Re: comp.sources.reviewed and a blast from the past
  5. Message-ID: <18745.Aug3006.08.2292@virtualnews.nyu.edu>
  6. Date: 30 Aug 92 06:08:22 GMT
  7. References: <22604.Aug103.47.2091@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <1992Aug11.225255.22760@athena.mit.edu>
  8. Organization: IR
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  11. I was wrong. The group hasn't died. It's difficult to call it successful
  12. when it doesn't even produce one package a month, but it hasn't died.
  13. The reviewers and authors have taken it much more seriously than I
  14. thought; I would no longer be surprised if comp.sources.reviewed was
  15. still around, producing an occasional package, in five or ten years.
  16.  
  17. Don't take this as praise---I still oppose the theory and practice of
  18. comp.sources.reviewed, and I would be happy to see it disappear. I'll
  19. bet most of the reviewers are a lot more cynical now about the group.
  20. Maybe this is the time for them to take a long hard look at what they're
  21. doing and to figure out *why* comp.sources.reviewed hasn't lived up to
  22. the optimists' expectations. Maybe, just maybe, they'll even figure out
  23. how to turn the group into something recognizably useful within USENET.
  24.  
  25. ---Dan
  26.