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From: sobiloff@thor.acc.stolaf.edu (Blake Sobiloff)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Electronic Newspapers
Message-ID: <2042@thor.acc.stolaf.edu>
Date: 9 May 89 00:51:31 GMT
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Reply-To: sobiloff@thor.stolaf.edu (Blake Sobiloff)
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In article <2330.246511CD@isishq.FIDONET.ORG> Doug.Thompson@p101.f162.n221.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Doug Thompson) writes:
>The news service or newspaper can transmit to you the "news" in exactly 
>thesame way they currently transmit it to whatever typesetting/output 
>device they use to put it on paper.

Yes, but the display on your own terminal would be pretty hard to format for
in advance, right?  With many different screens of different size/definition
ratios the publishers would have to reduce the formatting to a least common
denominator.  Or have an intelligent feed that would query your terminal as to
its screen configuration, and send a version specially formatted for that size.
Or, have a resident program that would format the information according to a
pre-defined standard that you had established...

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