[net.mail.msggroup] conferences&magazines&links etc. -- prestige & paper

julian@deepthot.UUCP (Julian Davies) (06/18/84)

Gisle Hannemyr mentions several electronic conferencing systems as
publishing paper versions to increase prestige, and lists the BLEND
project.  I had the impression from a converstaion recently with one
of the people in the BLEND project that BLEND is (mostly) *only*
on-line.  The whole purpose of the experiment is apparently to study
what happens when a journal is distributed and stored only in electronic form.
Two papers describing the journal have been published in parallel in
several prestigious 'paper' journals, including Computer Journal, for
the benefit of those of us who do not have access to BLEND databases.
		Julian Davies
BTW, my informant remarked that what happens in BLEND is largely
irrelevant to the computerising of paper publishing -- electronic
capture of text for typesetting, etc.