Re: GSA Vanity Press for Paleontologists

["David Schwimmer" <SCHWIMMER_DAVID@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear All:

     This may or may not be news to everyone on the list but the 
Society of Vertebrate Paleontology has been charging a $15 abstracts 
fee for as long as I've been attending meetings, and the number of 
papers has been increasing roughly threefold/decade.  The fee 
apparently neither limits submissions nor affronts anyone.  SVP seems 
to have the same problems with burgeoning sessions and oversized 
meetings as GSA. 
  The rejection rates of papers are about the same 
too, that is low, except that there is a movement toward using 
poster sessions effectively and non-pejoratively by having posters up 
for two days and scheduling only posters for a half-day.  It works 
well and most of us are pleased to present posters in lieu of talks.

David Schwimmer