From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] (no subject)
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2021 09:25:53 +1000 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2104070922590.44871@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKH6PiWo2D45uiHrhnyeypvKgJw5-k-ocasO67Q6-tiKEjx-yQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 5 Apr 2021, M Douglas McIlroy wrote:
> 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.
I quit the ACM when they jacked up their fees to the point of being
unaffordable (and refused to justify it when asked); that, and they were
no longer relevant since I stopped working in academia and went to
industry instead.
Same story with ACS and IEEE (although they made for useful tax
deductions).
-- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-06 23:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-05 22:43 M Douglas McIlroy
2021-04-06 7:23 ` arnold
2021-04-06 23:25 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2021-04-07 1:01 ` Jon Steinhart
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-01-11 23:02 Douglas McIlroy
2015-12-26 4:51 Doug McIlroy
2015-12-26 4:49 Doug McIlroy
2015-12-24 18:09 scj
2015-12-24 18:09 scj
2015-07-19 20:55 Brian Walden
2015-07-18 17:43 Mark Longridge
2015-07-18 17:53 ` Larry McVoy
2015-07-19 0:57 ` Warren Toomey
2015-07-19 1:13 ` Larry McVoy
2015-07-19 1:19 ` Milo Velimirovic
2010-01-13 3:42 Larry McVoy
2006-02-22 5:08 dmr
2005-07-20 21:17 Brantley Coile
2003-05-23 4:10 Dennis Ritchie
2003-05-24 3:42 ` Kenneth Stailey
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