menu changes! (fwd)

[John Johnson]

Just realized that some of this discussion wasn't on 'services'.  Sorry.
Because of some scheduling problems I still plan on implementing these
proposed main menu changes (or reversions) Monday night, unless I hear
serious reasons not to.  

=== JJ =================================================================

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 20:39:15 -0800 (PST)
From: John Johnson <jj at scn.org>
To: services at scn.org
Subject: menu changes!

Okay, folks, here it is!  I am proposing to modify the main menu as
described below.  What is proposed will, I hope, satisfy _most_ users as
regards of various issues that have been raised, both recently and when
these were discussed a year (or two??) ago.

To get us over this temporary deranged menu phase I plan to install these
changes on Monday, unless I hear *substantial* reasons (or sentiment) 
against.  If the proposed format is okay with you please send me ('jj') a
message that says "menu changes YES" in the subject line.  If not, send a
message with "menu changes NO".  (I won't be reading the messages, just
counting them.)  If you have a comment, add 'but' to the subject line, and
cc services.  Please consider your comments carefully--I will be short
with anyone (whether pro or con!) that decreases the signal-to-noise
ratio.  (Or starts aruguing trivial issues of wording.)

The principal design criterion is to provide a clean and straight-forward
organization of access to the other menus.  (As previously stated, I
believe that the effort saved by having specific functions on the main
menu is so little--two key-presses!--as to be absurd.) 

(I am also proposing that the main menu have one 'special menus' options,
and all of the restricted menus be moved to that.  I don't believe anyone
has an issue with that.  There are also some implied changes of
subordinate menus, but these also should not be controversial.)

The proposed format will look pretty much as follows.  Ok?


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