Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!mcdphx!udc!preece From: preece@urbana.mcd.mot.com (Scott E. Preece) Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix Subject: Re: ;login: newsletter status Message-ID: Date: 6 Mar 91 15:06:59 GMT References: <639@usenix.ORG> <11538@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <1991Mar4.160955.29754@ncsa.uiuc.edu> <1821@limbo.Intuitive.Com> Sender: news@urbana.mcd.mot.com (news) Distribution: comp Organization: Motorola MCD, Urbana Design Center Lines: 19 In-Reply-To: taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com's message of 5 Mar 91 07:17:00 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: etude.urbana.mcd.mot.com In article <1821@limbo.Intuitive.Com> taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com (Dave Taylor) writes: | | Speaking for myself, it's been a long time since I've actually | *read* an issue (because it's been a long time since there's | been anything *to read* in the magazine). --- I don't understand the comment. Large parts of most issues are reports on what happened at USENIX workshops and meetings and reports on the POSIX and other standards meetings, both of which I find interesting and informative. Clearly you are looking for a different kind of reading than I am (in this newsletter). I just wish the snitch reports were more timely (I'd like to be able to read about the January POSIX meeting *before* the April meeting...) -- scott preece motorola/mcg urbana design center 1101 e. university, urbana, il 61801 uucp: uunet!uiucuxc!udc!preece, arpa: preece@urbana.mcd.mot.com phone: 217-384-8589 fax: 217-384-8550