CALL FOR VOTES -- comp.sources.reviewed

[karsten at tfl.dk]

In article <4989:Mar123:50:0391 at kramden.acf.nyu.edu>, brnstnd at kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
> In article <1991Mar1.082855.149 at tfl.dk> karsten at tfl.dk writes:
>> Journals use paper mail for transporting papers.  After the paper has
>> been reviewed, it must be typeset, and proff read.  These things takes
>> time.
> 
> And you're implying that since comp.sources.reviewed will use e-mail
> instead, it will run smoothly? Be serious. Referees have always been and
> will always be the biggest bottleneck in journal publication.
> 
> ---Dan

No I am implying that when it runs smoothly, it can be
faster than journal publication.  Noboby can tell in advance
wheither or not the referees of comp.sources.reviewed would
be bottleneck, but I think that the moderator of c.s.r could
easily find a substitute a slack referee.  Andrew has
already 20-30 applicant for the posts as referees.  I
addition, the referees will work faster because they know
the system could be fast.  So is the human mind. No single
person will have as much work with running c.s.r as R$ has
with comp.sources.unix, even if c.s.r get a larger
throughput, and it will be much easier to replace those who
are slack.

Karsten Nyblad
TFL, A Danish Telecommunication Research Laboratory
E-mail: karsten at tfl.dk