On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 17:34, Aviram Jenik wrote:
> Maybe this is a case of 'dumbed down users' unable to operate the > Outlook mail client? (if this is a case, maybe we should re-open the > "Linux for Grandparents" thread) FYI: a recent thread on the linux-elitists mailing list recently discussed "Linux for Grandfathers" and caused one of the partcipants to conduct a non formal survey of a completly non representative group of grandfathers and grandmothers and came up with the following results: 1. Most of the people "interviewed" were computer literate to some degree, from avid users of AOL up till retired programmers. 2. A couple of the grandpeople (gah! :-) asked knew Linux, two were regular Linux users to several degrees and one grandmother was the treasurer of her local LUG(!). 3. A surprising majority of tghe grandpeople did not wanted Linux instealled on their computers - they prefered to do it on their own... Sure, the fact that linux-elitist is a little bit Sillicon Valley centric has something to do with the results but it only serves to prove that it's NOT the age, it's the person. I suggest "Linux for computerly-challanged"... :-) > 2. Ira mentioned something about linux.org.il's owner being hostile (or > specifically, Ira-hostile). Looking at the whois records, the zone > contact is one "Ira Abramov", from Eliezer Yaffe 13/5 Ra'anana. The Well, I think it only proves Ira's point further that the domain owner is Ira hostile... <duck and runs> :-) Gilad -- Gilad Ben-Yossef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://benyossef.com "A 24-year-old South Korean man died after playing computer games nonstop for 86 hours, police said." http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/10/10/1034061260831.html ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
