eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya) (10/25/89)
I think Rick is getting the short end of a stick. Down the street
(figuratively) is Computer Literacy Bookshop. They have dozens of copies
of the Proceedings. I've still not got mine, but I can't image a paper so
important in them, I have to have them now. The difference is
economics. Comp. Lit gets theirs in bulk. Individual members take a
lot of handling to get a single copy to a member. I think it a bit
selfish and silly to hold back a Comp Lit. order, so that all of the membership
can have theirs before anyone else. I hope the ACM does not get so petty
as to resort to something like this.
On the subject of answering the problem of "who know's what" types
of references, we should have the graf-bib server up with the years
76-86 shortly. The earthquake gave me a bit more of a chance to
edit than I had before. Maybe just one more month 8). I've just been
really busy. We could then set crontab up with a monthly message of
"use the server." Computer graphics is probably the only field
which can use such a service. Now if Baldev will only speak to me again......
Another gross generalization from
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