Subj : Re: Offline Mail Reader
To   : Jon Watson
From : Sean Dennis
Date : Tue Oct 12 2004 11:14 am

--> Quoting Jon Watson from a message to mark lewis <--

JW> another web forum software package to handle FTN messages. I'm 
JW> interested in taking something that your average web user 
JW> (read.."OMG..What's that BLACK SCREEN?!?!?") is used to and 
JW> comfortable with and using it to provide FTN echoes. There are many 

IMNSHO, if they're not smart enough to use a simple text-based menuing system 
(a la a BBS), then I don't want to deal with them in my system. :)

Unfortunately, in all of my tech support and PC tech experience, a majority of 
computer users are quite stupid and unwilling to catch on to the simplest of 
ideas.  As if using a text-based menuing system is so hard.  Again, 
unfortunately, it is the dawn of the GUI in the early '90s that "dumbed down" a 
majority of the computer user population.  We sysops and BBS users are but a 
tiny percentage of computer users.

I figure if they don't know how to spell "cool" or use another emotion besides 
"LOL", I don't need them using my system.

Again, just my two cents' worth and not trying to get into you and Mark's 
thread... I just had to say what I said though. :)  I've actually gotten paged 
at 9:15 PM on a Friday night because of a (then) new user could't figure out to 
log off.

At every single menu in my board, there is the (G)oodbye command on the screen.

Guess she couldn't figure it out because there was no "Goodbye" button to 
click... maybe I should set up RIP screens on my board? :)

Later,
Sean
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