Re: Guild For Referees


Straydog wrote:
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Old Pif wrote:


BMJ wrote:
http://space.com/searchforlife/seti_referee_guild_060420.html

The reasons why proposals are rejected have been discussed in this
newgroup before.


My favorite quote belongs to a guy who does internal referring in our
organization. It is a quintessence of the general situation:

"I don't know what it is but it is wrong."



What a blast! Back in my time, the only thing you could say is something
like: I don't understand this, therefore return it to the author for
clarification.


We have made a hell of a progress since then. Another interesting thing
is how to deal with the referee's errors. Might be pretty tough.

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