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To: Bill Ulrich who wrote (14081)	1/27/2001 4:55:02 AM
From: EL KABONG!!!	Respond to of 32883

MrB, ever since that Gutenburg chap I think I went to school with that guy. I always wondered if he'd ever made anything of himself after that incident with the girl's pigtails. Wonder where he is now??? Hmmm... KJC

To: Bill Ulrich who wrote (14081)	1/27/2001 8:32:25 AM
From: CatLady	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32883

Bill, While usually I think that you are right on with your comments, this is one time when I must disagree. A computer monitor is not the same as a printed page. I'm not a well versed in typography issues, all I know is that whenever I use a program for a long time I end up changing the font from serif to a non-serif. To me the real issue is preserving the power of the reader to view info as they choose. I have no wish to impose a sans-serif on everyone. All I want is for SI to preserve our ability to choose. This guy said it better than I can - To:Connor26 who wrote (3119) From: vagabond Friday, Jan 26, 2001 9:27 AM View Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3213 OT, re fonts... Connor, funny thing is that everybody's complaints aren't the same. For ME, for instance, the problem is that the new fonts are too small. That's because I've always chosen to display my SI fonts in IE's "Larger" font-option -- but the new SI system doesn't allow me to do that, or allow individual users to customize their displays in any OTHER ways (you can play with them a bit through the "Accessibility" options in IE, but that is NOT a real solution because it can then mess-up the displays in OTHER [non-SI] windows). So the real point is that SI's changes have removed users' ability to choose their own displays -- whether they want their fonts bigger, smaller, or whatever. Which means they ought to put things back the way they were, so we can again be masters of our own domain... Vagabond Message 15250541

To: Bill Ulrich who wrote (14081)	1/27/2001 11:45:12 AM
From: 10K a day	Respond to of 32883

This type of eye exercise relies on completely effortless character recognition.>>> Yeah! read the threads...then stare at some stripped lines....Sometimes seizure ...just for the fun of it...

To: Bill Ulrich who wrote (14081)	1/27/2001 3:21:14 PM
From: Hoatzin	Read Replies (9) \| Respond to of 32883

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To: Bill Ulrich who wrote (14081)	1/29/2001 7:53:04 PM
From: Daniel	Respond to of 32883

Visit your bookcase ... [T]he publishing industry uses serif type ... because the individual serifs aid in character recognition. ...Remember, ... people read [threads] 20-50-100-150 pages at a sitting, night upon night. This ... relies on completely effortless character recognition. ... [T]he publishing industry has been fiddling with this stuff for about 400 years. They've got a pretty good headstart... Absolutely. SI, PLEASE pay attention to these points! Daniel