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To: Hoatzin who wrote (271)	12/20/1999 1:10:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 644

It's not malice - it's corporate resolution combined with a decision that accountability to individual users isn't required. Like the tobacco cos - they had an agenda which was in the corporate interest - and it took fifty years of tireless hard work by opposed groups to get them to cop to the agenda. In the meantime, it was just not required to tell the real story. I don't think GNET is malicious, any more than Team Bud is malicious when they take a race machine and paint BUD front, top, sides and back all over it. But in the case of SI - 1) I see no point in munching the old format. Its absence of the Marketer's Mentality is one if the things that made SI such a nice place. And I do believe that is why so many rallied to the old format - it was so uncommercial in look and feel. 2) The new format is dominated by marketing (specifically Branding) concerns. I am a free individual. I have no agenda other than good hair hygiene. But Bryan speaks for GNET, and he needs to represent his corporate bosses. They are probably telling him what's what. But if Bryan assumes the cloak of User Liaison, I will hold him to a ceratin standard of forthrightness with Me, User. No doubletalk. No bandying about the meaning of "is" or "sexual intercourse". Just plain, engineer-grade talk. Bryan, implying that I was calling you a liar is a low blow. As if you are the injured party here. I must admire the gamesmanship, but it is yet another way you erode my trust. Fwiw.

To: Hoatzin who wrote (271)	12/20/1999 3:13:00 PM
From: Snowshoe	Respond to of 644

>>Did it occur to you that the button your customers hit the most is "Next"? So why put it 4 pixels away from the "Remove subject mark" function?"<< Dilbert is the perfect analogy! Here's another example: In the New SI they moved the (Previous/Next/Respond) buttons all the way over to the right of the page and changed them to a smaller font. I vastly prefer the Old SI which has them in a larger font on the left with the other two frequently-used buttons (the post# being replied to, and the name of the poster). When I tried the New SI I constantly had to move my cursor back and forth across the entire page. How in the world did this ever even get to Beta? If Go2Net really understood the soul of SI I believe they could have wrapped on a new identity without destroying the clean, plain simple functionality we are all used to. I'm still hoping for improvements to both new versions, while sadly pondering the alternative of moving to Yahoo! Dogbert, where are you when we need you?