Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!laura From: laura@utzoo.UUCP (Laura Creighton) Newsgroups: net.works Subject: Re: Data Considered Harmful Message-ID: <4901@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Fri, 11-Jan-85 10:35:36 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.4901 Posted: Fri Jan 11 10:35:36 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 11-Jan-85 10:35:36 EST References: <159@topaz.ARPA>, <489@hou5g.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 18 I know several people who say that they use ``ooze mode'' (smooth scroll) because the jumping text makes them queezy. (I found this out when I did an office-to-office ``stamp out smooth scroll'' campaign, because the fool terminals couldn't keep up with the host in smooth scroll mode). I work the other way, though. When things are scrolling I find myself edging forward in anticipation, willing the text to crawl up the page. It makes reading news even more exhausting than it already is... I have the same problem reading text at 1200 baud, or even 2400 baud. What I like best is getting whole screens at 9600 baud where things happen too fast for me to watch them happening.... Question: do the people who feel queezy after reading long lists of text also see coloured splotches on the wall after they read such lists from stimulating the rods or cones in their eyes too long? Laura Creighton decvax!utzoo!laura@berkeley