Dear SIGCISers,
I've put up a blog post on this discussion of the release of volume 4A of Knuth, including my own thoughts, here:

http://www.sigcis.org/node/129

Please continue the conversation in the comments section there!

Thanks,
Chris McDonald

On 1/26/2011 11:23 AM, Thomas Haigh wrote:

[Forwarded from Jim Cortada, who has also been hit with the mysterious mail problem when posting to the list. Given that there are more than 250 people on the list we’ve probably had enough messages on this topic now. We are experimenting with blog posts for some announcements, so that this kind of back and forth chat can take place among those with particular interest in the topic in the comments under the post. Tom].