On Thu, Jul 23, 1998 at 04:03:39PM +0100, Manar Hussain wrote:
> I hope you'll not find any or at least very many people who disagree with
> your general sentiments but there's no real need to disagree as it's not
> that hard to provide both a web and email interface to things as needed.
> It's rarely a case of either/or in terms of design though time pressure may
> lead to one interface developing more and earlier than the other.
With this, I concur: I have no problem with the idea of offering
people multiple interfaces to accomplish the same goal (e.g. FTP retrieval
via mail, Usenet-news reading via the web, and so on) as long as the
simplest alternative is also made available.
BTW (and this isn't directed at you, but at everybody), please don't
conclude that I'm some kind of anti-web Luddite. I'm not: I have a
track record that's nearly two decades long of pushing all kinds of
new technology, often long before very many other people would pay
any attention to it. So I'm all for further progress; what I'm not
for is what I suppose I'd call "gratuitous progress", i.e. changes
made in the name of progress that in fact don't actually accomplish
anything substantive but whose side-effects adversely affect others.
---Rsk
Rich Kulawiec
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