CACM Why this "improved" design

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From: Juergen Koenemann
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1991 13:55

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I agree with all those who complain about the new CACM "style" and
confirm that many of the people I know stopped reading it.

Especially bad are these new titlepages, starting on even pages,
with large illustrations, the author's names hidden...
Today I realized WHY they did it during an attempt to xerox an
article. It's almost impossible and a waste of paper. Retrieving
one in your file folders is even worse. Thus my conclusion:
   CACM articles are deliberately presented in a way that
   discourages xeroxing and archiving and retrival
   in order to force people to buy ACM Press books with
   articles reprinted in a normal scientific useful way

Or CACM are just meant to be coffee table browsing material ??
-- 
Juergen Koenemann 
koeneman@paul.rutgers.edu

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From: koeneman@paul.rutgers.edu (Juergen Koenemann)
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Subject: CACM Why this "improved" design
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