I think maybe part of the problem is that Excel, etc are doing stuff that's pretty much like what people are used to doing with paper and pencil or whatever. What LS is doing is in a different, much more complex, and much less natural world, IMHO. I'm curious, if you knew more what the messages were about, and weren't anxious about all sorts of unknown bad stuff happening if you do something wrong, but were instead just using LS like eg to play games with, would you have the same displeasure with it? Ie, then you could just try some response to a LS popup, and see what happened, like trying out a new game. Do shareware games have detailed user manuals, or do they expect users to experiment and see how things work? I'm not being critical, I'm just trying to understand the background of your reaction to LS. Eg, how would you feel if LS gave like some urls of info, or book references, about how to work with networking and firewalls? Would that be satisfactory at LS's price level (which is $0 in the available demo mode, too)?
Really, networking and security are a hard topic. LS, IMHO, puts a nice action and gui on some hard stuff. I'm not saying there aren't various minor phrasings, etc which I might want to have clarified, but I expect to have to look up technical stuff when I'm learning a technical tool. LS doesn't seem to be claiming to be teaching users how to construct a firewall and how to understand all the complexities of computing security, it's just putting a nice interface on things. Are there any firewall tools anyone knows of which include info about all the variations of networking on different platforms and in different situations, and explain it all at a beginner's level? On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Terry Mickelson wrote: . . . > It is a SOLD product. All it needs is a few lines of explanation. Most > of us are not beginners, we're just new to this particular area. Power > User? I'm familiar with Excel, Photoshop, FileMaker and Canvas. It > never occurred to me that after paying money for something, I had no > right to learn it or ask questions. Power User indeed. What a pile of > crap _______________________________________________ Littlesnitch-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://at.obdev.at/mailman/listinfo/littlesnitch-talk
