Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rphroy!ox.com!hela!wotan.iti.org!scs From: scs@iti.org (Steve Simmons) Newsgroups: comp.archives.admin Subject: Re: Million dollars a year for COMP.ARCHIVES? Message-ID: Date: 21 Jun 91 17:20:18 GMT References: <632@mitech.com> Sender: usenet@iti.org (Hela News Manager) Organization: Industrial Technology Institute Lines: 15 Nntp-Posting-Host: wotan.iti.org dank@blacks.jpl.nasa.gov (Dan Kegel) writes: >Biology journals are having success requiring researchers to fill out >a standard online form describing the genetic sequences to appear in >their papers. Bad comparison. Getting articles published by academic journals is a *necessity* in research -- publish or perish. The authors will bend over backwards to get published. Those who post sources have no strong motivation to obey any form rules -- look at how many things come out without man pages or decent docs. -- "If we don't provide support to our users someone is bound to confuse us with Microsoft." -- Charles "Chip" Yamasaki