koeneman@paul.rutgers.edu (Juergen Koenemann) (06/18/91)
I agree with all those who complain about the new CACM "style" and confirm that many of the people I know stopped reading it. Especially bad are these new titlepages, starting on even pages, with large illustrations, the author's names hidden... Today I realized WHY they did it during an attempt to xerox an article. It's almost impossible and a waste of paper. Retrieving one in your file folders is even worse. Thus my conclusion: 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 Or CACM are just meant to be coffee table browsing material ?? -- Juergen Koenemann koeneman@paul.rutgers.edu