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"us " <us@neurol.unizh.ch> wrote in message <gr137d$lts$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> i am well aware that i am not going to make a lot of friends with this post...


Well when do we ever make friends by posting to this newsgroup!  ;)


> however, i am extremely  annoyed and - offended - by the blueprint of this contest and cannot but utter the utmost disappointment:
> 
> 1) this is a mere (and scientifically as well as conceptually completely useless) beauty contest; apparently due to some hardware not up and running (WHAT! we are talking TMW...); so, why bother...


I agree about the beauty contest bit, and the value assessment.


> 2) the FEX is heavily abused(!) to serve as a (convenient...) vehicle to convey information, which is in NO way asked for and clearly shall be perceived as an impertinent intrusion by the company&#8230;


If we can judge from the length of the threads generated on the NG due to past contests, the FEX better get a disk upgrade.  


> i shall  referee all such submissions with this one-star comment:
> 
> this submission is a) NOT suitable for and b) clearly does NOT live up to the goals and expectations of the FEX by which other authors are relentlessly judged by fellow MLers...  
> frankly, submitting stuff related to a (rather insignificant) ML-beauty contest to the FEX is an abuse of this (already heavily) taxed site and should be moved to another place...  
> please remove it...  
> urs
> 
> just my anger...
> us


Understandable, but it doesn't get me angry.  It is annoying, but I have long since learned that the FEX is not the resource it could be and there is nothing that can be done about it (by us, the 'regular' ML users).  It has changed from the nice, uncrowded and pretty beach it was 5 years ago to the Jersey Shore of today.  It can be useful, but it takes a lot more work to find quality.

My .02.