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Marin David Condic wrote:
 > Its an all-volunteer thing, you know.

I pay money, and quite a lot of it, to belong to ACM and SIGAda.
The only thing I get out of it are the publications (speaking for
myself - others may belong for their own separate reasons). If they
cannot produce professional-quality publications, then I will not
continue to be a member.

I also belong to the Mathematical Association of America, and I pay
approximately the same amount of money for that. In return, I get
three regularly scheduled magazines, free of misprints, and full of
interesting articles at almost the right technical level for me.