Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!visual1.jhuapl.edu!dave From: dave@visual1.jhuapl.edu (Dave Weintraub) Newsgroups: comp.org.acm Subject: Re: Communications Message-ID: <1991Jun10.204235.3895@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> Date: 10 Jun 91 20:42:35 GMT References: Sender: news@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (USENET News System) Reply-To: dave@visual1.jhuapl.edu (Dave Weintraub) Distribution: usa,canada Organization: Johns Hopkins University Lines: 21 In article , bdg@idaho.amdahl.com (Blaine Gaither) writes: |> |> Does anyone else think that that "Communications" is over-designed. |> It has become so baroque, no ... even rococo, that is getting hard to |> find anything in it or read it. I am not talking about the quality of |> the articles, but rather the actual layout/pasteup and use of color. |> Yes. Yes. Yes!!! (I notice that this is a trend. For example, INSIGHT magazine also just turned to unreadable fonts and distracting graphics/etc.) I once edited a Proceedings for the ACM (APL83). I wish that they would stick to their own standards, and shoot for professionalism, over hype! This is being posted on INTERNET by dave@visual1.jhuapl.edu. I can also be reached as dave@aplvm.bitnet Dave Weintraub The Applied Physics Laboratory The Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins Road 3-145 Laurel MD 20723-6099 USA (301)-953-5839