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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (273)	12/20/1999 3:02:00 PM
From: opalapril	Respond to of 644

In a variation on the old tree-falling-in-the-forest riddle, I'd like to know who GNET thinks will read the "New" SI boards when there's no one left to post on them? I realize SI/GNET, motivated by commercial urges, will in the end do whatever it is they want to do. As evidence, just look at today's disappearing quotes on the old SI. Everyone is being forced step-by-goose-step into using the new SI. Personally, I welcome any changes that improve on what has gone before, but with SI I feel compelled to register my unhappiness. The new SI, no matter how one re-formats the limited options available, works excruciatingly slow for registered users. The layout is so awkward and ugly as to be nearly unreadable. The servers seem to be much less reliable. In short, SI is retrogressing, not progressing. Can this be what SI Bob means by staying current Web trends? While the New SI's poor layout and performance explains why the changes have to be forced on us (i.e. they aren't desirable enough to attract people on the merits), it does not explain why SI/GNET chooses to risk losing so many disgruntled members to competing message services which work so much faster and have layouts that are so much more intuitive, readable, and easier on the eye. About all that is left here for me, and I imagine others, are a few peers whose views are appreciated -- and even they, I notice, increasingly are "migrating" to RB, Yahoo, and other locales. So, to the riddle: When the last poster has left the New SI for friendlier and faster boards, who does SI/GNET anticipate will be left to read the ads that are doubtless coming?