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From: eepjm@cc.newcastle.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.org.acm
Subject: Re: Communications ACM format
Message-ID: <1991May10.163453.10091@cc.newcastle.edu.au>
Date: 10 May 91 06:34:53 GMT
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Organization: University of Newcastle, AUSTRALIA
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In article <528o21w163w@shark.cs.fau.edu>, mikal.bbs@shark.cs.fau.edu
        (Michael brown) writes:

>   I think part of the problem people have with the CACM is not
> knowning what its purpose is.  I view the CACM as a general CS
> magazine for all members.  I think the deep, 'scholarly' articles
> belong in other journals.  CACM should (& it does) publish items
> that hopefully are of interest to all members.

OK, can somebody tell me:
  1.  Where does the ACM now publish the sort of thing which used to
      be in the CACM?
  2.  Is there a mechanism that lets me drop my CACM subscription and get
      that other journal instead?

IMHO, formed after being a member of a number of different professional
organisations, a "magazine for all members" has just one real virtue: it
lightens my reading load in that I don't have to open it before throwing
it in the rubbish bin.  Unfortunately, I haven't yet accumulated enough
experience with the new look CACM to judge whether it's yet in that
category.  One thing which *is* already clear is that the decision is
complicated by uncertainties over whether any given page is the start of
a new article, a continuation of the one I'm trying to skip over, or a
full-page advertisement.

On the positive side: this is really great stuff for a dentist's waiting
room.           :-(  )

Peter Moylan                         eepjm@cc.newcastle.edu.au