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From: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix
Subject: Re: better papers (First impressions)
Message-ID: <4334@eos.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jul 89 16:57:14 GMT
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Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Calif.
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In article <1S3gCM#zOlw6=ggw@wolves.uucp> ggw@wolves.UUCP (Gregory G. Woodbury) writes:
>In article <1989Jul7.183147.7129@sq.sq.com> msb@sq.com (Mark Brader) writes:
>>> If people want more good papers, they should start submitting them.
>>
>>But what people want is good papers written by *other* people!
>>They already know about their own work...
>	Besides that, the USENIX Call for Participation lists the "themes"
>for the meetings, and my problems don't seem to match the recent themes.

Erik Fair and I were talking about this the other day.
The better papers now go to the Workshops.

He thought one great conference could be made by selecting the best
papers from each of the workshops and repeating them.  Just so long
as the Workshops themselves can stay small.

Another gross generalization from

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