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On Tue, Feb 10, 1998 at 08:00:48PM -0800, vic stated:
As a matter of concern...why would anyone default(or set) to a white background, or any color scheme featuring dark colored text on a light background? This can be proven to be ergometrically(sic) counter to the brains normal functioning of reading light as foreground and dark as background, not to mention(i just did) the sunburn on the eyeballs that results from a blareingly bright screen... Unfortunately, due to the use of default use of black text(in unpredictable locations) in many online documents,i am forced to compromise and use a paleish lime green background for my orange(or lime-green?!?)text, ewhich is normally set on a black or indigo back ground.. I know that this color scheme harkens back to the old monochrome days(and i use color, where applicable to express information)(my little computer brainiac brother reacted with an "EWWW/") yet on the outside i figure there was some reason for it(maybe it was the low cost of orange and green phosphors, i dunno...
Well thanks for the ergonomic lecture. I still want to set the background to white in slrn though; even if I am commiting a ergo faux pas. I did find out how this could be done thanks to JED (developer of slrn), I personally do not like peach as a medium to read news. So the question remains how to set other colros when a program like slrn runs. To force the white, I understand now. I think the color white has been fashionable for a long period of time as a print medium. But this really travels kind of far afield and into other domains from the original question about slrn.
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