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To: RTev who wrote (1217)	8/2/1999 10:58:00 PM
From: Greg Jung	Respond to of 2340

For the second time, the feedback page didn't work for me (/usr/sbin/sendmail: not found or something...) so here is my comment offered with the petition signature: To: R Jennings (547 ) From: Greg Jung Monday, Aug 2 1999 10:52PM ET Reply # of 553 Agreed on the SI formatting. I don't know why, maybe the extra lines between the first-line excerpts, maybe just the font. But I can get a better gist of the discussion taking place. Why does the display format need to be redone in order to get new features. Answer: it doesn't. The beta should be re-named to developmental (and developed) while the dual format may be programmed with a preferences switch. Then see how many choose which format: 66% for one and the loser gets tossed!

To: RTev who wrote (1217)	8/2/1999 11:49:00 PM
From: Caroline	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2340

RTev (& Jeff and Bryan, if you're there), These problems were solved years ago. There's a reason all newspapers have the same basic format. All of the papers knew how to solve readability problems when they went online, because the issues of readability, white space and basic user interface are the same on paper as on screen. These problems were solved years ago by other people, and by Jeff & Brad in 1995-1996. See, e.g., The Washington Post washingtonpost.com The New York Times nytimes.com The Boston Globe boston.com The Cleveland Plain Dealer cleveland.com The San Francisco Chronicle sfgate.com The Birmingham News al.com The Houston Chronicle chron.com All are perfectly capable of bombarding me with advertisements while still giving me readable material. White space, column width, colors and layout. These problems were solved years ago. Regards, Caroline