Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!software.mitel.com!laub From: laub@Software.Mitel.COM (Boniface Lau) Newsgroups: comp.org.acm Subject: Re: New format of CACM Message-ID: <7788@laub> Date: 2 May 91 20:35:33 GMT References: <5839@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> Organization: Mitel. Kanata (Ontario). Canada. Lines: 29 One thing that the current CACM format irritates me a lot is the postcard inserts - because the postcard is thicker than other pages, I cannot conveniently flip through the pages with my thumb. I hate these postcard inserts so much that for every magazine that I bought, the first thing I did was to tear out all these inserts. After that, I felt MUCH MUCH better at flipping through the pages. When CACM introduced the first postcard insert, I torn it off, wrote on it "This is not another byte magazine!", and mail it back to ACM. These postcard inserts convey a very CHEAP image. I guess all these changes are to counter the old image of an ivory tower publication. One thing good about the new format is the paper. Because of the reflection from shiny paper, the IEEE Transactions are much more difficult to read. While both the old and new CACM format do not use shiny paper, the new format gives a better feel and it is almost a joy to highlight it with highlighter. BTW, anyone knows why a magazine like the IEEE Transactions would publish on shiny paper? -- Boniface Lau (613) 592-2122 ext. 3042 laub@Software.Mitel.COM Mitel Corp. ...uunet!mitel!spock!laub 350 Legget Drive, Kanata Ontario, Canada, K2K 1X3