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From: sobiloff@thor.acc.stolaf.edu (Blake Sobiloff)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Electronic Banking
Message-ID: <2043@thor.acc.stolaf.edu>
Date: 9 May 89 00:58:51 GMT
References: <4160@crash.cts.com> <8408@chinet.chi.il.us>
Reply-To: sobiloff@thor.stolaf.edu (Blake Sobiloff)
Organization: St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN
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In article <8408@chinet.chi.il.us> les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
>Random clippings would soon be ignored.  What we need is a way for the
>current technique of newspaper layout to be moved to electronic media.
>The difference is not just font sizes and shapes, but that someone with
>experience has put a great deal of effort into arranging things they 
>consider important so they will catch your eye.

As far as random clippings, how about "headlines" of stories that you can scroll
through at your leisure--if one seems interesting you can download it.  Probably
would only be used by people who *want* to learn something outside an
immediate area of interest, though.

Arrangement could be replaced with one of two ways: 1) if the "paper" comes in
as straight ASCII text, order of listing could reflect editorial preference, 
and 2) if it comes in as PostScript (tm, et al, ad nauseum), layout would be
similar to todays broadsheets.

>Les Mikesell


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