Article View: comp.org.acm
Article #519Re: Communications
From: Dave Weintraub
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1991 20:42
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1991 20:42
21 lines
1550 bytes
1550 bytes
In article <BDG.91Jun7093338@targhee.idaho.amdahl.com>, bdg@idaho.amdahl.com (Blaine Gaither) writes:
|>
|> Does anyone else think that that "Communications" is over-designed.
|> It has become so baroque, no ... even rococo, that is getting hard to
|> find anything in it or read it. I am not talking about the quality of
|> the articles, but rather the actual layout/pasteup and use of color.
|>
Yes. Yes. Yes!!!
(I notice that this is a trend. For example, INSIGHT magazine also just
turned to unreadable fonts and distracting graphics/etc.)
I once edited a Proceedings for the ACM (APL83). I wish that they would
stick to their own standards, and shoot for professionalism, over hype!
This is being posted on INTERNET by
dave@visual1.jhuapl.edu.
I can also be reached as
dave@aplvm.bitnet
Dave Weintraub The Applied Physics Laboratory The Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins Road 3-145 Laurel MD 20723-6099 USA (301)-953-5839
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<1991Jun10.204235.3895@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!visual1.jhuapl.edu!daveReferences:
<BDG.91Jun7093338@targhee.idaho.amdahl.com>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!visual1.jhuapl.edu!dave From: dave@visual1.jhuapl.edu (Dave Weintraub) Newsgroups: comp.org.acm Subject: Re: Communications Message-ID: <1991Jun10.204235.3895@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> Date: 10 Jun 91 20:42:35 GMT References: <BDG.91Jun7093338@targhee.idaho.amdahl.com> Sender: news@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (USENET News System) Reply-To: dave@visual1.jhuapl.edu (Dave Weintraub) Distribution: usa,canada Organization: Johns Hopkins University Lines: 21