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Pastimes : SI Beta Site Launch - 7/01/99 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: David Lawrence who wrote (32)	7/1/1999 10:53:00 PM
From: Cheeky Kid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2340

Or driving Edsels. I hear they were going to be one hot auto back in the 50's. Sometimes new things just don't catch on. I have been reading posts from people who don't like the new site. Lots of people who don't like something won't openly complain to SI, they just discuss it among themselves. I am not giving up the old format, if Craig can set it up, I'll be using his software.

To: David Lawrence who wrote (32)	7/6/1999 10:04:00 AM
From: Caroline	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2340

David, how does that response address the issues that have been brought up? My old cave had a limit to the width of the words in a message. My new cave cares little for the ability of my eye muscles to scan across a monitor's width. My old cave had pastel colors, light, easy on the eyes and emotions. My new cave is as exciting and comforting as a day at the army barracks. My old cave had boxes around my messages, so I knew which part of the page I wanted to focus on first. My new cave makes me search for the content every time I click "next." There is a reason that magazines and newspapers are laid out the way they are. And it's the same reason I throw out Wired still in its cellophane, and why I will depart slowly but surely from my good friend of over three years, Silicon Investor. I have too much to read during the day to waste my time with a design that reaches out and attacks me.