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Subject: Re: The ICCA Needs *YOU* as New Members *NOW* !!!

Author: Jon Dart

Date: 12:47:17 05/26/00

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I was a member for several years, and then didn't renew.

The main benefit of membership is, of course, the ICCA
Journal. This has published a number of really excellent
articles over the years, but I found the ratio of useful
to useless articles discouraging small. Your mileage
may vary. But it seemed to me that they didn't get a lot
of high quality contributions and were reduced to publishing
pretty much what they got.

I'd add that I agree with Bruce about having an online
presence. There's no reason in the year 2000 not to have
information on the Web. In fact I view the Web as a
perfectly acceptable alternative to print. ICCA's journal
could be delivered much cheaper and faster online. Academic
journals have clung to print publication out of inertia
and for the rather illogical reason that having one's
results delivered online still doesn't convey the same
prestige as having them come out in ink on paper.

--Jon



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