Dear Anarchist: You wrote: > I've dealt with it on some of my friend's computers. I work as a cheap > tech on call, working for donations for people who otherwise couldn't > afford machines. Me also. > I teach them to use them and such. I have tried in every > case to talk them into using Eudora (No, I DONT want to teach them DOS or > Linux, they're hard enough to teach in Win$) but time and again they insist > on using OE. That's what their friends use. That's what their ISP talks > them into using.
Yes, that is what I find. Eudora on Win 3.1 is a good compromise on an old computer. However, my 86 year old Father is managing OK with Arachne after failing with Win95 for the simple reason that he has real trouble with hooking the mouse clicks and finds a keyboard is more familiar. Also the writing is bigger in Arachne. Would you believe that to engage "visibility options" in Windows requires very good eyesight? Another thing that really made me laugh was that his shut down sequence from "on line" was: 1/ turn off screen 2/ power down computer 3/ pull out phone line 4/ power down modem Now try that as a consistent proctice on a Windows machine! Meanwhile my father-in-law has Outlook and has succeeded in sending about two emails in the last year. There have been at least five times the machine has needed sorting out. Kali Kali http://www.nimnet.asn.au/~kali/
