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woods@robohack.UUCP (Greg A. Woods) writes:
>In article <FAIGIN.92Aug5124820@soldan.aero.org> faigin@aero.org (Daniel P. Faigin) writes:
>> I truly think the "art" type changes to ACM are cosmetic. Is there a problem
>> with the articles.
>What-so-ever is wrong with plain covers?  If you read it for the
>information content, then surely the "artistic" work on the covers is
>a complete an total waste of effort!

An artistic cover is not necessarily a complete waste.  If you are looking
through a stack of magazines for the one which contains a given article, and
if you don't remember which month it was printed in, having a picture that
reminds one of the article can help you spot it immediately; if you're not
looking for the "cover" article, then if you look for that particular article
often enough, you might still associate the picture with the article.
(Think of them as icons for your desktop... :-)

Of course, I've been tossing out CACM since the content so rarely warrants
adding them to my already bulging collection of periodicals...