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To: Les H who wrote (57677)	7/30/1999 12:34:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 67261

Here is a "political" subject, close to home, which can potentially unite people all across the political spectrum. It has to do with the fate of SI: Subject 29753 Les, you made a comment on the petition thread that puzzles me a bit. You said that the Beta format was primarily designed to accommodate advertisers. Could be -- but where did you see that? The impression I got from reading the Beta Test thread was that the G2Net folks just felt the site needed "improvements." In other words, the "classic site" was deemed too "old-fashioned." If the idea really was just to expand advertising, I would have expected a storm of objections. After all, many SI-ers had already been raising an unholy fuss about that teeny tiny little Datek banner on the present site. Personally, I had never even noticed it! The objections to the new site have been of another order altogether. They have focussed on the fact that the "improvements" did not extend to the message boards, which constitute SI's only raison d'etre. As a matter of fact, the reverse was true: many of the improved features recently adopted on the "old" SI were dropped on the Beta site! Instead of the search function being expanded, for example, it was contracted, so that you could no longer search for subjects on a particular thread, etc. After people started screaming about that, the Beta people promised to restore the discarded functions -- but not to improve them. And other features (like the Clubhouses) appear to have disappeared for good. At least, there has been no response to queries so far. And in any event, would it really hurt SI economically if the old site were kept up, in addition to the new one? The petition does not advocate abandoning the new version. Although...maybe G2Net should recall the fate of the "New Coke"! Customer discontent eventually forced Coca Cola to go back to "Classic Coke." Anyway, the petition is there for the signing, if anyone is interested in doing so. (It's not a vote -- so the "nays" are not invited! <gg>) jbe

To: Les H who wrote (57677)	7/30/1999 11:01:00 PM
From: art slott	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 67261

>>Among them was powerful Majority Whip Tom DeLay of Texas, who argued at the time that the problem was not guns but a morally decaying society that allows birth control, abortion, day care, and schools that teach children that "they are nothing but glorified apes who have evolutionized out of some primordial soup of mud."<< What better proof is there that we evolved from the apes than Tom Delay himself. news.excite.com Hope I didn't offend any ape lovers out there.