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Subject: Re: ICCA

Author: Omid David

Date: 10:47:51 09/07/02

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On September 07, 2002 at 13:35:33, Rolf Tueschen wrote:

>On September 07, 2002 at 12:58:59, Omid David wrote:
>
>>
>>>JICCA is the journal of a private association. Official for CC but not
>>>official in the sense that a member of a university had to fear something.
>>
>>I'm not sure... Officially speaking, the value of an article published in ICCA
>>journal, is by no means considered inferior to another one published in any
>>other academic journal.
>>
>>That is, ICCA is considered an academic journal, but more domain specific (Now
>>after becoming ICGA, it deals with even wider domains).
>>
>>Omid.
>
>If so, to the better! Even here in CCC we don't talk about it's articles too
>often. Therefore it was a good idea to take Bob's paper to begin with. Although
>if the starting reason was a bit complicated here. I miss some continual
>referring to the journal. With the necessary commentary much more could enjoy
>science papers also if they are not academics. What is beyond my understanding -
>why in CCC the persons behind the journal do never make some exemplary PR! Where
>they should do it if not here? I'm visiting CC since 1996 but this association
>including the Journal remained a secret institution to me. One of my first
>negative observations was in 1996 the secret connection between D. Levy and F.
>Friedel, who, if I remember it right, discussed exclusively via email, and
>Friedel was proud of it, when he published it in CSS. While the big discussion
>was in public on R.G.C.C. (It was about the Jakarta Wch.)
>
>Rolf Tueschen

BTW, speaking of r.g.c.c. I wonder why is it so dead these days? It seems that
CCC has completely dominated it...



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