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M Douglas McIlroy <m.douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu> wrote:

> > I had been debating leaving Usenix for several years already;
> > the move to soft copy ;login: clinched it for me.
>
> I have been a loyal nonmember of ACM ever since the CACM was
> converted from a journal to a magazine. Usenix didn't strike quite
> such a decisive blow when it abandoned Computing Systems.
> ;login: remains as a Cheshire grin. It remains to be seen whether
> I'll continue to scan it in its non-tactile form.
>
> Doug

I know myself. When Linux Journal (for which I even wrote some articles)
went soft-copy, I downloaded the files for over 2 years, but never
bothered to read them, either on a computer or on my Kindle.

Oh well.  At least the threads here have been interesting reading.

Arnold