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Re: IUCR-COMPCOMM: Jan 2002 edition of the IUCr Computing
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- From: "I. David Brown" <idbrown@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 15:38:22 GMT
Dear Lachlan, I have had a look at the Computing Commission web site and I am impressed with what you have done, but I have one small suggestion for improvement. As you instructed, I had a look at the Newsletter and I am overwhelmed. I have never before received letter containing over 100 pages and my printer decided it was far too much for it to print. So I had to content myself with veiwing the html pages. One or two pages I can handle on the screen, but I was lost with 100 pages of your newsletter. A newsletter is something I should be able to print and read at my leisure over my after-dinner cup of coffee. It should never be more than 20 pages. What you have provided us with is a series of specialized and no doubt valuable reports (I have not yet had time to read them), but they would be much better posted as separate documents that can be individually accessed and printed by those who are interested. Unlike the articles that appear in a newsletter which are read and discarded, these reports look as if they have some permanent value. Can I recommend that you present them in a different format as a series of technical reports, each separately paginated and accessed, and leave the newsletter format for more general and popular articles outlining future directions, general problems or historical reviews? Best wishes David ***************************************************** Dr.I.David Brown, Professor Emeritus Brockhouse Institute for Materials Research, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Tel: 1-(905)-525-9140 ext 24710 Fax: 1-(905)-521-2773 idbrown@mcmaster.ca *****************************************************
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