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.