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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!chinacat!rpp386!jfh
  2. From: jfh@rpp386.lonestar.org (John F. Haugh II)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
  4. Subject: Re: comp.sources.reviewed and a blast from the past
  5. Message-ID: <21439@rpp386.lonestar.org>
  6. Date: 1 Sep 92 02:07:43 GMT
  7. References: <22604.Aug103.47.2091@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <1992Aug11.225255.22760@athena.mit.edu> <18745.Aug3006.08.2292@virtualnews.nyu.edu>
  8. Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II)
  9. Organization: River Parishes Programming, Austin, Republic of Texas
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  12. In article <18745.Aug3006.08.2292@virtualnews.nyu.edu> brnstnd@nyu.edu (D. J. Bernstein) writes:
  13. >I was wrong. The group hasn't died. It's difficult to call it successful
  14. >when it doesn't even produce one package a month, but it hasn't died.
  15. >The reviewers and authors have taken it much more seriously than I
  16. >thought; I would no longer be surprised if comp.sources.reviewed was
  17. >still around, producing an occasional package, in five or ten years.
  18.  
  19. Don't be so quick to cancel the funeral - the most recent "package" is
  20. really just a rip-off of the compress source that's been running about
  21. for the last 10 years or so ...
  22. -- 
  23. John F. Haugh II                   | "The US Government has the Midas Muffler
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  26. Domain: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org      |                  -- Jay Maynard
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