At 06:03 PM 5/14/00 +0200, you wrote:
>Pippi wrote:
> >I use Eudora for mail. I like it, it's nice, it's easy, and it doesn't
>open >attachments by itself, not even pictures.
>
>Eudora opens HTML attachments for me.
While it does display in HTML, I don't find it opening attached html, and I
never had to set that.
> >He HATES computers. Will rant on about it at the merest mention of them.
>The theatre >stuck one in his office last year.
>
>Many people that say they hate computers say it's because "the computers
>always crash", and that is far from the truth. Sadly these people don't
>want to hear that there are "crash-free" alternatives out there.
I disagree, Those people have some computer facility, will engage with some
willingness, this gentleman of whom I spoke, and others I know similar,
simply do not wish to deal with it at all. He is adamant, uses the term
Luddite to describe himself, it's rather extreme really, his hands start to
wave, his voice rises, he's quite distraught to find that computers are
everywhere and he can't escape them. I am sure that if he didn't have a
family to care for he'd run away to the woods to try and escape them! When
asked to explain his objections "I just don't like them, ~sputter~ they,
they, they're evil! I don't like computers, I want nothing to do with
them" that is his line. Poor guy is getting sent company information on it
and he has to retrieve that information. He'll be lucky if he learns HOW
to retrieve an attached document, let alone how not to! One of the cute
things about the last one was that in the default mode our maligned GUI
(and this confounds me) is set to hide familiar extensions, so all most
users would have seen when looking at it is "I-LOVE-YOU-LETTER.txt" and
that looks pretty benign all around, huh? the .vbs is added after the .txt
and would have been hidden. It is this which fooled so many. I've asked a
user or two, "why hide file extensions?" "It looks messy and anyway, the
icon tells me what it is, or I can double click it to find out" In that
sense it was stupidity, but in another sense, it was particularily
maliciously designed.
Okay, enough, I really know that this issue should be dropped, just that I
think that more clarity on how people DO use their computers in this world
can enhance our interaction with the netizens out there, our interaction
with users at work when we support them, and our interaction with what is
admittedly the most common system in use. Complain all we want about the
rain, it still falls where it will.
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