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From: laura@utzoo.UUCP (Laura Creighton)
Newsgroups: net.works
Subject: Re: Data Considered Harmful
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Date: Fri, 11-Jan-85 10:35:36 EST
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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