First impressions
Henry Spencer
henry at utzoo.uucp
Fri Jul 7 01:55:19 AEST 1989
In article <11755 at ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> kpv at ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Phong Vo[drew]) writes:
>A reasonable approach that could have been taken for the Baltimore conference
>was to re-invite some of the papers rejected in the San Diego conference
>because of lack of space or because they did not meet the themes of the time.
>Come to think of it, it's probably not a bad idea to keep a list of submitted
>papers that were considered good quality but not meeting some criteria
>specific to a particular conference...
There is a small problem with this: you are assuming that good papers get
rejected for such reasons. This certainly wasn't true of San Diego (I was
on the SD Program Committee); the only really good paper we rejected was
one that simply had absolutely nothing to do with Unix. Other than that,
we didn't reject *anything* we considered really good -- we couldn't
afford to. We had no lack of space: we could have found room for twice
as many papers. We had no conference-specific criteria, either. Your pool
of good-but-rejected papers simply doesn't exist.
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