Subj : Re: Offline Mail Reader
To   : sean dennis
From : Jon Watson
Date : Tue Oct 12 2004 11:50 am

======>>> Sean Dennis, 1:18/200 wrote:

Originally to: Jon Watson

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

....snip...

<<<====== end quote


I totally agree...I'm not a fan of these users, let me assure you, but I do 
recognize that if we're going to get more users into Fidonet, then we have to 
spoon feed them...

It's a matter of priorities - I'd rather see a vibrant Fidonet with many levels 
of users than a Fidonet with 50 smart users.

S'my 0.02 worth...

Jon


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