🚀 go-pugleaf

frampton@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca (Steve Frampton) writes:

> It certainly makes sense when the 8 screwdrivers require a complicated
> "preparation" and then "training" phase before you can start using them!
> 
> The average user wants a simple program with pull-down menus, etc. to
> sign on, retrieve any new messages, perform any file transfers as
> required, and then sign off.  I mean, look at the success and simplicity
> of the All-In-One mail front-end, the CompuServe Information Manager, Elm,
> Pine, etc.  
> 
> Users don't want to spend 2 to 3 weeks getting things working properly, 
> and then the rest of time tweaking and perfecting something just to do
> the same thing.  Waffle as an automatic transfer mechanism/reader/etc. 
> is *fantastic*.  But for admins, not users.

I used to think the same thing. But one of my users just set up his
own Waffle under OS/2 in less than a week. I'm pissed because it took
me MONTHS to get my system online :-S


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Kevin Houle     kjhoule@iowegia.uucp