Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!tektronix!hplabs!hplabsc!taylor From: taylor@hplabsc.UUCP Newsgroups: mod.comp-soc Subject: Re: More on "The Network Nation" Message-ID: <835@hplabsc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 7-Nov-86 20:01:12 EST Article-I.D.: hplabsc.835 Posted: Fri Nov 7 20:01:12 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 8-Nov-86 16:06:41 EST Reply-To: seismo!bpa!sjuvax!sjuvax!sjuvax.sju.edu!cc743805 Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Lines: 39 Approved: taylor@hplabs Reference: <789@hplabsc.UUCP> This article is from conway and was received on Fri Nov 7 06:34:26 1986 In response to Tom Keller's article in comp-soc... > I couldn't disagree with you more about TBBS. I find it to be clunky, >unfriendly and irritating. I use a TBBS system locally, and it is one of >the silliest things I have seen yet. In the above piece, the 'you' metioned is Kathy. Now, on to what I really have to say. To judge one TBBS as bad and then to equate all TBBS systems as bad is a bad move. This goes for all BBS systems, be they RBBS, Collie, Fido, C-Net, A-Net, homegrown, etc., etc., etc. There are bazillions (new number, I just made it up) of public access computer systems, and they all have their merits. I do agree with you, Tom, about TBBS, it does seem more unfriendly than other BBS systems I have used. I am in the process of setting up a BBS in the Philadelphia, and have just realized that I am setting it up in a way that pleases ME, without considering the people that are going to be using it. I suppose this happens often in the BBS world, because sysops are the kings of their systems, and often rule them without help from a 'committee', making judgements less than good for the global user base. >[this leads nicely to the fact that not all interfaces are alike and that > there is no such thing as the "right" interface or a "perfect" interface, > because we're all so different! -- Dave] Maybe we could shoot off onto a tanget that discusses what people desire in an interface, and also discuss what interfaces we like, and which ones 'turn us off' :-) [feel free to start one, Chuck!! -- Dave] Chuck Conway ...{bpa | burdvax | princeton | allegra}!sjuvax!cc743805