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From: michael@taniwha.UUCP (Michael Hamel)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs,comp.misc
Subject: Re: New Ideas in BBSes (No BS!)
Keywords: BBS Client Server Network NOMSDOS
Message-ID: <243@taniwha.UUCP>
Date: 10 Dec 88 06:13:29 GMT
References: <1217@cps3xx.UUCP> <2093@uokmax.UUCP> <2324@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <437@telly.UUCP> <1089@tank.uchicago.edu>
Reply-To: michael@taniwha.UUCP (Michael Hamel)
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In article <1089@tank.uchicago.edu> ads4@tank.uchicago.edu (adam david sah) writes:
>Don't even think for a minute that Unix/Rn, etc are friendly enough
> "for the average person"There aren't even any menu support, any 
> oftentimes no online help.

Yeah. 

>If you don't believe me, try using something like searchlight bbs-
> there are a hundred ways to do everything, and online help is just
> a "?" or an "F1" away...

Yeah, thats really awful. How confusing. I mean, the average person
just naturally thinks of the "F1" key when they don't know what to
do, don't they. And hundreds of ways to do everything has to be good
because... well.. theres just so much of it and more of anything has
to be better.


....


I apologise for the above outburst, but we Mac users lose control
occasionally, especially when we have been forced to use "vi" for
eight weeks...

-- 
"Pay no attention to this swine," I said to the hitchhiker...

Michael Hamel           |  currently    ..!{unisoft|mtxinu}!taniwha!michael
University of Otago     |  soon to be   ..!ucbvax!michael@otago.ac.nz