From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,dea6cc4846547f8e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: [OT] Systems Software Research is Irrelevant References: <10m5so1end9a849@news.supernews.com> <2siavvF1lq5haU1@uni-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <2siavvF1lq5haU1@uni-berlin.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 18:06:24 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.104.239 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net 1097085984 63.184.104.239 (Wed, 06 Oct 2004 11:06:24 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 11:06:24 PDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4822 Date: 2004-10-06T18:06:24+00:00 List-Id: Marc A. Criley wrote: > I finished up last month's CACM (which means flipping through it > trying to find something, anything of interest) and once again it's > chock full of surveys, survey protocols, and plans for conducting > further surveys. Right. One of the articles is on how to measure web filtering software. It has nothing whatever to do with computing, computer science, or SW engineering. I considered writing a letter pointing out the similarity of this article to one on how to measure the effectiveness of human librarians at keeping certain books out of the hands of minors, but what's the point? CACM exists as a peer-reviewed journal for academics who would otherwise perish. -- Jeff Carter "Death awaits you all, with nasty, big, pointy teeth!" Monty Python & the Holy Grail 20