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 Grex is currently having some flow-control problems with the slow modem 
group.  If your modem has flow-control, you should turn it on.  If not, 
then try dialing into 761- 5041.  This will connect you to some 
different modems that do not have the problem.

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For some reason, I typed read new and only got items #1 and #12.  The others
didn't show up.  this could be a problem in the future

No this is normal picospan behavior. Try read unseen.

is it?  well, it's working again.

'backtalk' crashes when i try to read item #4 of the conference
"archive". it also says that the error has been logged.

<i had reported this once before>

Re #3-#5: The first time you join a new conference, the 'read'
command shows you only the first and last items. This is so that
when a person joins a large conference, they won't be
overwhelmed with reading material. On subsequent joins, 'read'
shows you items to which new material has been added.

Oops, mdw  is right.

If your modem has error-correction, you should turn it on.

read new, as well?

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are they?  that's odd.  I've gotten full reads that I ahven't particularly
desired by not typiing in "new"

I wonder if the dark backround in agora and the reversed out text, as 
seen by backtalk, can be considered a system problem.

Probably not, but I am very unfond of it.

At least it's not as bad as auction <with all the buttons black, all the
time>

thanks remmmers, that's a cool idea...and it makes perfect sense (I had the
same prob. as senna)

Re #13: In choosing color mixes for web pages that are basically
text, I find Dave Siegel's advice to be very helpful. White or
very pastel backgrounds and black text work best. See Siegel's
"Web Wonk" pages at http://www.dsiegel.com .

re #13: i am using backtalk_pistachio and i *love* this dark
blue b/g -- in fact much better than the pale green one.

I agree with #17 :-)

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  Hmmm..  The spectrum is generally described as being made up of 
  7 colors (red, orange, yellow, blue, indigo, violet..) and color
  wheels usually show red, greeen, blue or cyan, magenta, yellow
  and combinations thereof.

  I think when you speak of "white or one of the other 16 colors"
  you're betraying your PC-centrism (and outdated PC-centrism at 
  that since I suspect you're talking about the astonishingly ugly
  CGA (or were they EGA?) colors..

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I generally find that almost anything on a dark blue background is hard to
read.

I'm using backtalk most of the time.The color scheme for summer agora 
looks ok to me. It very appropriate I think, summer and sea - swimming, 
surfing etc.

Maybe the color for each agora should be associated with the season:
summer - blue 
spring - whatever soft color of the flowers
fall - ? ( no idea what the best color to represent fall )
winter - white : snow 

The color for cooking conf. does look a bit too bright for the eyes.

I didn't like the white on blue at first, but now I've gotten used to it.

I always use a light color (yellow, gold, white, grey, green, etc) on a dark
color (dkblue, black, dkred, etc) for my text entry boxes.  By favorite color
combos are blue on black and gold on black.  I personally hate light
backgrounds with dark text.  So thanks, Valerie. :)

I played with the color combinations on this term program.  I like light
blue on black.

That's my current favorite too.  I even set up my Win 95 colors with those.

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Re #26: How do you feel about reading books, magazines, and
newspapers?

re #30:  Some reading disabilities / problems have been resolved simply
by placing a colored filter over black text on a white page.

My point was the the whole print world is standardized on black
text on light (usually white or near-white) background.

Just had a look at agora in backtalk. I find it hard to read.
And aesthetically, those bright green buttons on a dark blue
background don't work at all.

My monitor settings: 16-bit color depth (i.e. "hicolor",
thousands of colors), 12-point courier font, approx 75 pixels
per inch.

I'd really prefer that we stick to (near-)white background and black
text.  Anything else makes it likely that text-oriented types will
not want to read it.

I'm curious if there is any good reason why backtalk goes funky whenever
I hit the "NEXT CONF" button from agora.

It only seems to happen when there are no new responces in the rest of
my Conf's.

I use white text on a blue background when using my telnet client, and
it looks great. The difference is that the telnet client uses the Terminal
font while Backtalk uses the <pre> tag around responses, meaning
my browser displays the text in New Courier.  New Courier is much
less readable on a blue background.

I tried changing the fixed-width font to Terminal, but MSIE doesn't seem
to want to let me do that.

No matter which colour combinations BackTalk uses, not everyone will be
satisfied...so lets just pick a different colour for every season - like
Valerie hinted at.

Hmmm... my computer uses white text on a blue background no matter what I tell
it to!  Silly Apple IIGS... :)

beat it up coyote:-)

 I, for one, like the current color combination.  Looks good both at 
home and at work.  

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