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What is really amazing is that this paper has been rejected in the first place (among others).

http://www.fang.ece.ufl.edu/reject.html

I once read this story in either ACM or IEEE but failed to find the exact reference. It was an editorial relating famous papers rejected by the journal. Does anyone have this reference?

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I’d say that the reviews you have cited are satirical.

I retract my assessment. I have found what appears to be the original paper ([0], from Computer 2005), and there is no indication that the reviews are fake. On the contrary, it appears that they are brought up as striking examples of a reviewer's incompetence. Wow!

[0] https://wp.doc.ic.ac.uk/cairesfe/wp-content/uploads/sites/80...

Ok, I've read everything more carefully: those are clearly hypothetical, entertaining reviews. Hints: (1) the link at the beginning; (2) no references to the sources :-)

Thank you. This is the article I remember.

And yes, I have been fooled. This is a lesson to only cite (and even remember) carefully read articles!

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