Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!tekecs!orca!andrew From: andrew@orca.UUCP Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: the worth of SIGPLAN Message-ID: <1337@orca.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Jul-83 01:04:47 EDT Article-I.D.: orca.1337 Posted: Mon Jul 4 01:04:47 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 28-Jun-83 19:12:49 EDT Lines: 25 From Chuck Von Rospach: 99% of the articles they publish are rather worthless at best ... You must remember that SIGPLAN (and most if not all of the SIG publications) is NOT a refereed publication, and it will usually publish anything that is sent in, no matter how trivial the material ... I will agree that there are occasional gems, but spending $22 a year and wading through all of the dreck simply wasn't worth it anymore, even if I can do it on company time and with a company membership... That's quite a criticism coming from a person who reads net news: 99% of news articles are worthless at best, NOT refereed, any trivia that's sent in is published; occasional gems, but spending money (large phone bills) and wading through the dreck isn't worth it, even on company time ... SIG publications are not refereed, but they are edited. I have seen at least one rejected manuscript (from SIGOPS) .. the author's offense was to take twenty pages to make a not very worthwhile point where two pages would have sufficed. -- Andrew Klossner (decvax!teklabs!tekecs!andrew) [UUCP] (andrew.tektronix@rand-relay) [ARPA]