Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!rochester!cornell!uw-beaver!fluke!kurt From: kurt@tc.fluke.COM (Kurt Guntheroth) Newsgroups: comp.org.acm Subject: Re: CACM -- photocopiability Message-ID: <1991Jun19.210425.3563@tc.fluke.COM> Date: 19 Jun 91 21:04:25 GMT References: <6542@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> Distribution: usa Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA Lines: 14 From article , by koeneman@paul.rutgers.edu (Juergen Koenemann): > > CACM articles are deliberately presented in a way that > discourages xeroxing and archiving and retrival > in order to force people to buy ACM Press books with > articles reprinted in a normal scientific useful way Well when I phoned them to complain, they said that they didn't design the magazine for ease in copying, but rather for aesthetic design. The person I talked assured me that if the ACM didn't want an aesthetic design they wouldn't have hired him. Should have gotten his name so I could make a more specific suggestion on how to improve the CACM.