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To: coug who wrote (34674)	8/11/1999 12:23:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 71178

This is just an observation of the ongoing debate of the classic vs. old SI. It seems to me it is indicative of the unwillingness of people in general to accept "new" in any facet of their lives.. I can't agree. Everybody who is on SI has accepted, and in most cases embraced, the new technology of computers. Luddites like my mother-in-law, who refuses to get a computer, aren't here! For myself, I eagerly embrace many new technologies -- I started on TRS-80s and bought one of the original IBM PCs. I eagerly embrace DVD drives, multi-gigabyte hard drives (heck, the first hard drive I ever bought was 5 megabytes, and after we had gone from the original 32K to 64K to the huge 128K floppies we couldn't imagine how we could use that much disk space. Ha!), disk brakes, four wheel drive, microwave ovens, you name it. But I don't blindly embrace new for the sake of new. I still think vinyl has qualities CDs will never have. I prefer Coke Classic. I have Wordperfect 8 loaded on my computer but I still use 6.1 because, damnit, it WORKS. And I WANT MY OLD SI!

To: coug who wrote (34674)	8/11/1999 12:54:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

Hi COug, I do think people are often resistant to change. BUt I think that to generalize the strong objection to the New SI from so many as only that would be wrong. Most of us have done a lot of adapting if we are active on the internet and computers. And to further classify the people objecting to SI as "conservative" , well, I'd be curious how you arrived at this conclusion. PArticularly in the areas you mention. Religious? (At least half of us here are agnostics or atheists.) Political? (We run the gamut from libertarian to liberal to strongly conservative to anarchy!) Culture? (I'm not even sure what you mean by that, but I would guess we are as culturally diverse as the rest of SI.) Your statement made the objectors sound like little RUsh Limbaugh clones! I agree with you about the 10 message improvement; I think that's an asset, and I'm trying to use the new format some, so that I don't dismiss it unfairly.

To: coug who wrote (34674)	8/11/1999 5:17:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Actually, coug, I would say the REVERSE is true. In my observation, so far, it is the more conservative folks-- the ones who Respect Authority On Principle -- who tend to accept the New SI, while the more rebellious anarcho-syndicalists riot to keep the Classic. <g> I am a pro-Classic activist myself, and am anything but a conservative, in any respect. Change does not always equal improvement. Sometimes it is a step backwards. A lot of the best SI features were initially missing on the new site (search functions, for example), and it was only by dint of raising a ruckus that we are getting them restored. And so forth... Joan